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Photographer: Matthew L. Wagner
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Family Rosaceae
Rubus flagellaris Willd.
common dewberry, northern dewberry
Rubus: Latin name for "bramble" or "blackberry"
flagellaris: whiplike
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| Status: | Native |
| Plant: | trailing, perennial shrub, low growing with stems to 8' long; first year's canes normally rooting at the tip, small thorns stout, curved to somewhat hooked, and with a wide base |
| Flower: | white, 5-parted, 3/4" wide; inflorescence with 1 to 5 terminal, stalked flowers often with small leaflets below; blooms May-June |
| Fruit: | black, 1/2" long berry |
| Leaf: | 3-parted into toothed leaflets |
| Habitat: | dry; woods, forests, bogs; in rocky, sandy soil |
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