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Rubus allegheniensis

Botanic Family

Rosaceae

Author

Porter ex L.H. Bailey

Common Names

• Allegheny Blackberry
• Eževika Gornaja (Russian)

Geographical Habitats

• British Colombia
• New Brunswick
• Quebec
• Nova Scoti
• Ontario
• Prince Edward Island -Canada
• Alabama
• Arkansas
• California
• Connecticut
• District of Columbia
• Delaware
• Florida
• Georgia
• Iowa
• Illinois
• Indiana
• Kansas
• Kentucky
• Maine
• Maryland
• Massachusetts
• Michigan
• Minnesota
• Missouri
• Nebraska
• New Hampshire
• New Jersey
• New York
• N. Carolina
• Ohio
• Oklahoma
• Pennsylvania
• Rhode Island
• S. Carolina
• Tennessee
• Virginia
• Vermont
• Wisconsin
• W. Virginia -USA
• Mexico

Natural Habitats

• Forest
• forest edge
• woodland
• thickets

Flowering Times

• May
• Jun

Fruiting Times

• Jun
• Jul
• Aug

Spiny scandent or erect straggling glabrous biennial shrub with furrowed & angled red or purple stems to 3m long & recurved prickles, 3-5-foliolate leaves, doubly serrate leaflets, pilose above & pubescent beneath, median leaflet 120mm long, outer leaflets 10mm long, floral branches with 3-foliolate leaves with leaflets to 100mm long. Terminal or axillary racemes to 200mm long with bracts, 15mm white flowers, sepals villous without & tomentose within to 8mm long, corolla to 30mm across, white or pink petals to 20mm long, black sweet fruit to 28mm long

Further References

• Rehder 1934
• Johns 1979
• Mansfeld
• NYBG
• USDA
• The Plant List 2
• NAF
• FOSEUS