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Rubus trivialis

Botanic Family

Rosaceae

Author

Michaux

Common Names

• Southern Dewberry
• Low-bush Raspberry
• American Dewberry
• Low Bush-blackberry

Geographical Habitats

• Alabama
• Arkansas
• Florida
• Georgia
• Illinois
• Kansas
• Kentucky
• Louisiana
• Maryland
• Missouri
• Mississippi
• North Carolina
• Ohio
• Oklahoma
• Pennsylvannia
• South Carolina
• Tennessee
• Texas
• Virginia
• West Virginia - USA
• Mexico

Natural Habitats

• Riverside
• woodland
• swamps
• wasteland
• thickets
• bayous

Flowering Times

• Feb
• Mar
• Apr

Fruiting Times

• May
• Jun

Slender evergreen biennial or perennial trailer, climber or procumbent, prickly hairy stems with dense red or purplish bristles. 3 - 5 foliolate coriaceous leaves, doubly serrated glabrous leaflets to 60mm long, floral branches with leaves 40-60mm long. Solitary or axillary & terminal few-flowered bristly prickly racemes or corymbs with bracts with 1-4 flowers, of 30mm white to pink flowers, sepals 8mm long puberulent without tomentose within, white petals 15mm long. Sweet juicy 30mm black fruit

Further References

• Sturtevant 1919
• Rehder 1934
• Huxley 1992
• Mansfeld
• NYBG
• The Plant List 2
• Botanicus
• USDA
• NAF
• JAA
• FOSEUS
• USNH