Blooms: June - Early August
Habit: shrub,vine
Duration: perennial
Origin: Introduced
Distribution: Introduced chiefly west of the Cascades, British Columbia to California; occasionally east to Idaho
Habitat: Roadsides and disturbed areas, mostly at low elevations
Habit: shrub,vine
Duration: perennial
Origin: Introduced
Distribution: Introduced chiefly west of the Cascades, British Columbia to California; occasionally east to Idaho
Habitat: Roadsides and disturbed areas, mostly at low elevations
Species Description:
General: Strongly armed, evergreen perennial with ascending to clambering stems to 10 m. long, the prickles flattened, recurved.
Leaves: Leaves primarily 5-foliate, from deeply lobed to divided into secondary leaflets, these deeply incised to serrate, green and nearly glabrous above, copiously hairy beneath.
Flowers: Flowers rather numerous in simple or compound, flat-topped, leafy racemes; calyx woolly and prickly, the 5 lobes lanceolate and tailed, reflexed, 8-15 mm. long; petals 5, pinkish, 9-14 mm. long, obovate and tri-lobed; stamens at least 75, pistils few.
Fruits: Drupelets coherent, blackberry ovoid, 1-1.5 cm. thick, blackish
General: Strongly armed, evergreen perennial with ascending to clambering stems to 10 m. long, the prickles flattened, recurved.
Leaves: Leaves primarily 5-foliate, from deeply lobed to divided into secondary leaflets, these deeply incised to serrate, green and nearly glabrous above, copiously hairy beneath.
Flowers: Flowers rather numerous in simple or compound, flat-topped, leafy racemes; calyx woolly and prickly, the 5 lobes lanceolate and tailed, reflexed, 8-15 mm. long; petals 5, pinkish, 9-14 mm. long, obovate and tri-lobed; stamens at least 75, pistils few.
Fruits: Drupelets coherent, blackberry ovoid, 1-1.5 cm. thick, blackish
Accepted Name:
Rubus laciniatus Willd.Synonyms:
Rubus vulgaris
Rubus vulgaris var. laciniatus Dippel.
Treated in Flora of the PNW as:
Rubus laciniatus
Additional Resources:
PNW Herbaria Specimens: View list of Rubus laciniatus specimens in the Consortium of Pacific Northwest Herbaria database.
WTU Herbarium Specimens: View list of Rubus laciniatus specimens in the WTU Herbarium database.
Washington Flora Checklist: Rubus laciniatus treatment.
E-Flora BC: Rubus laciniatus atlas page.
CalPhotos: Rubus laciniatus images.
USDA Plants Database: Rubus laciniatus.
Clayton J. Antieau, 1999
Ben Legler, 2004
Ben Legler, 2004
Ben Legler, 2004
Ben Legler, 2004
Ben Legler, 2004
G. D. Carr, 2006
G. D. Carr, 2006
Harry Thomas, 2011
Harry Thomas, 2011
Harry Thomas, 2011
Harry Thomas, 2011
Harry Thomas, 2011
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