Add botanical flair to your correspondence with these beautiful unused Mountain Flora Series "Woods’ Rose" postage stamps! This alpine wildflower design is perfect for adding a pop of color and a touch of nature's splendor to your cards and letters or save-the-dates and wedding invitations. In pristine mint condition, these self-adhesive USPS forever postage stamps are valid for current mailing when combined with the total required postage based on the weight of your correspondence. The "Forever" designation means this stamp can be used to mail a standard letter at the current first-class letter rate, regardless of future postage increases, ensuring you can use them with confidence for your future mailing needs. Embrace mountain floral splendor with this captivating postage stamp!

Purchase includes a total of TEN (10) mint condition postage stamps shown in the product listing photos.

STAMP INFORMATION:

• Name: Woods’ Rose
• Series: Mountain Flora
• Year Issued: 2022
• Face Value: Forever stamp (current first-class standard letter rate — see below)
• Topic(s): Flowers, Wildflowers, Floral, Botanical, Alpine Flowers, Mountain Flora, Spring Flower, Mountain Wedding, Rocky Mountains, Cascade Mountains, California’s Sierra Nevada, Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, Utah, Idaho, and New Mexico
• Color(s): Pink, Green, Yellow, Multicolored
• Mailing Occasions: Wedding Invitations, Save the Date Announcements, Shower Invitations, Birth Announcements, Thank You Cards, Snail Mail, and more…
• Printing Method: Offset Press
• Scott Number: 5674 (coil version)
• Adhesion Type: Self-adhesive
• Condition: Genuine Unused USPS Postage Stamps, Ready to Use for USPS Mailings, Mint Condition

STAMP DESCRIPTION & HISTORY: The 2022 “Woods’ Rose” Forever stamp was issued on March 14, 2022 in Alpine, Wyoming as part of the Mountain Flora series by the United States Postal Service. The stamp’s artwork was created by artist Lili Arnold, whose hand-drawn botanical illustrations—refined digitally for print—define the clean, contemporary aesthetic of the Mountain Flora series. This issue continues the USPS tradition of highlighting native North American plants while narrowing the focus to species adapted to higher elevations and rugged landscapes.

The stamp depicts Woods’ Rose (Rosa woodsii) in soft, naturalistic tones. The flower is shown as a simple, open pink bloom with five gently rounded petals surrounding a bright yellow cluster of stamens, conveying both delicacy and resilience. Slender green stems and subtle foliage support the blossom, while a pale, uncluttered background allows the flower’s form and color to remain the focal point. The restrained composition echoes field-guide illustration, emphasizing clarity and authenticity over ornament.

Woods’ Rose primarily grows throughout the western and central United States, with its strongest and most consistent presence in Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, Utah, Idaho, and New Mexico, where it is a common native shrub in mountain valleys, foothills, and open woodlands. Its range also extends into higher-elevation areas of Arizona, Nevada, and California, particularly in the Sierra Nevada and interior mountain ranges, as well as northward into Oregon and Washington. It thrives in cold winters and short growing seasons, making it a fitting representative of the Mountain Flora theme. The plant is also known by several alternate common names, including “western wild rose,” “interior wild rose,” and “mountain rose,” all reflecting its broad range and adaptability.

STAMP MEANING & SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE: The Woods’ Rose carries spiritual significance rooted in balance, resilience, and quiet protection. As a native wild rose that thrives in mountain valleys, open woods, and stream corridors, it symbolizes the ability to live with both softness and strength—embodying beauty that is neither cultivated nor fragile, yet naturally defended by thorns. Spiritually, this dual nature is often interpreted as a reminder that openness and vulnerability can coexist with healthy boundaries, and that gentleness does not require the absence of protection.

Growing wild across rugged landscapes, Woods’ Rose is also associated with ancestral memory and endurance—a living presence that quietly persists across generations of land and climate change. Spiritually, it is often seen as a symbol of steadfast love, emotional resilience, and the wisdom of living in rhythm with nature, offering a gentle reminder that strength can be graceful, and beauty can be resilient without being showy.

SERIES HISTORY: The 2022 Mountain Flora series was issued by the United States Postal Service (USPS) on March 14, 2022, with the official first-day-of-issue city designated as Alpine, Wyoming, a location chosen to reflect the high-elevation environments celebrated by the stamps. The series marked a focused evolution of USPS floral issues, narrowing its scope to wildflower species native to mountainous and alpine regions of North America—plants adapted to short growing seasons, cold temperatures, and rugged terrain. Issued as First-Class Forever stamps, the Mountain Flora designs aligned with the USPS’s modern, denomination-free approach to postage, ensuring long-term usability regardless of future rate changes. Artistically, the series adopted a clean, contemporary botanical illustration style, featuring single blooms rendered with fine linework, soft gradients, and generous negative space, evoking the clarity of field illustrations while remaining visually refined at stamp scale. Produced in both pane and coil formats, the 2022 Mountain Flora series balanced collectability with operational efficiency, reinforcing the USPS’s long tradition of using everyday postage to highlight native landscapes, ecological resilience, and the quiet beauty of America’s natural heritage.

GENUINE USPS POSTAGE: These unused vintage postage stamps are perfectly valid for use as current postage for mailing with USPS as long as you use the adequate amount of postage to achieve standard postage rates according to the weight of your mailing. Check current postage rates at USPS.com.

ABOUT USPS FOREVER STAMPS: Forever postage is a category of First-Class Mail stamps issued by the United States Postal Service that retains its full mailing value indefinitely, regardless of future postage rate increases. First introduced in 2007, the Forever stamp was designed to simplify mailing by eliminating the need to purchase additional postage when rates change. A single Forever stamp is always valid for sending one standard, one-ounce First-Class letter within the United States, even if it was purchased years earlier at a lower price. In practical use, Forever stamps function exactly like traditional First-Class stamps but offer greater convenience and flexibility. They can be used on everyday correspondence, formal invitations, greeting cards, and business mail, and they may be combined with additional Forever or denominated stamps to meet higher weights or special mailing requirements. Because their value automatically adjusts with postal rates, Forever stamps are especially popular for personal stationery, weddings, and long-term stamp collecting.

TELL YOUR STORY IN STAMPS: We’ve worked with hundreds of couples and their stationers to custom design highly stylized personalized postage sets based on our customer’s life stories. We can help you curate personalized vintage postage sets to commemorate your save-the-date, wedding, shower, announcement, and other special occasions in a truly unique fashion. Drawing on our encyclopedic knowledge of every stamp ever issued by the USPS, and sourcing from our extensive inventory of collectable unused vintage stamps, we’ll help you tell your unique story in stamps!

ABOUT HERITAGE POST HOUSE: Jennifer Kramer is the founder of Heritage Post House, a boutique vintage postage house located in Northern California. Jennifer sources the most beautiful unused vintage postage stamps ever issued by USPS and artfully arranges them into curated postage sets that are sure to add a special touch to your invitations, announcements, and special mailings. In addition to creating pre-arranged postage sets, Jennifer also works with couples (and their stationers) to create one-of-a-kind custom postage arrangements for wedding invitations, save the dates, and other special occasions.


Product Specifications

Length: 0.98 in.
Height: 0.01 in.
Width: 0.88 in.
Weight: 0.01 lbs.