Most likely rootstock. Rootstock most likely 'Dr. Huey', a once-blooming (spring) semi-double red climbing rose. Easily moved. Some people like this rose, others do not. Your choice.

Move it now and see if you like it. Like hoov said some people love it others hate it. It will get very large because it is a climber and a very vigorous grower. That's why it was used as root stock in the first place. It also has a tendency to send out runners and spread. So where ever you decided to put it give it lots of room. If in the end you don't like it you can always yank it out. It may take a couple tries to get it all but eventually it will go away.

Or it could be a seedling. After next spring, you'll know if it's Dr. Huey.

You would know sooner if it were Rosa multiflora. Do the leaves look like your Hybrid Teas? If so, it's not multiflora. But if the leaflets are smaller, and if it blooms with small white fragrant blooms that each last a single day, then it's multiflora and we'll need to help you decide.

Or it could be something totally new.

IS anyone still using IXL? I agree, Jackie. I think it's striking.

Jeri

Thanks, everybody. I think I'll move it & see what happens. I don't think it will make it where it is, so what do I have to lose? I really hope it is from that tree rose. I loved the color of the roses on that but it just didn't last for me.

Patty,
There is nill chance that the roots of a (US produced) tree rose will produce the blooms of the uppermost aka grafted part of a tree rose.

A tree rose represents either two or three different roses. Two years ago there were tree roses with grafts at two or more elevations. Today at a nursery I saw a tree rose with was (according to the photo on the bush) budded with two different roses' buds: one deep purple and the other white.

Those are things that happen up on the trunk of the rose.

That trunk may be a single rose, or it may be the result of rootstock having a strong conducting stem grafted on top of it- and that stem would then have the desired bloom buds grafted on the top of it.

Were a rose to emerge from the roots, its blooms WOULD look like the rootstock.

Sunshine from SC

This rose that is coming up from my original plant is covered with red roses, the original is yellow. I bought it from a nursery about 3 years ago. We saw the long runners from it last year, but there were no blooms or anything on it then so we had no idea it was going to be a different color. These roses don't have a lot of petals on them and the runners are coming from under the yellow rose. My husband talked of cutting them off last year and I asked him not to do it. I had never seen anything like this and had never heard of it. There was no way of another rose bush having been in that spot for no one had lived on this piece of property before us. I don't want to kill the yellow rose in trying to dig up the red one for it was a birthday gift for me on my 77th birthday.

The runners are around 3 feet long and there are several of them. If anyone can tell me anything about this or what to do, I would appreciate it. Thank you.

Patty I had a volunteer rose and moved it and I'm so glad I kept it. It is hardy, healthy, repeating beautiful blooms and forms the most beautiful hips in the garden. I have no idea where it came from but it is pretty big now and a staple in the garden. The only negatives are thorns and lack of scent.

Another seedling is (I think,) r. Glauca, which I let grow next to an alba and the reddish grey foliage looks great next to it.

Macmap, it sounds like your yellow rose was grafted to a Dr. Huey root stock that is now growing into a bush/climber too. If the yellow rose is your precious one, most people would cut off the runners so all the root's energy goes to the yellow rose. You would have to dig down to the base of the plant where the runners are coming from to cut them off cleanly. If the yellow rose is already not doing well and you only have the root stock red rose healthy you could have cut off the failing yellow rose. This is too bad when this happens, if you lose the top rose.