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Photographer: Michael Clayton
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Family Rosaceae
Rubus idaeus L. var. strigosus (Michx.) Maxim.
American red raspberry, red raspberry, wild red raspberry
Rubus: Latin name for "bramble" or "blackberry"
idaeus: of Mount Ida in Crete where Jupiter was hidden as an infant
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| Status: | Native |
| Plant: | erect to drooping, perennial, up to 7' tall shrub; first year's canes normally not rooting at the tip, a few to many fine, straight thorns with narrow bases |
| Flower: | white to greenish, 5-parted, petals shorter than the sepals; inflorescence of 2-5 flowers in an umbel-like cluster (cyme) and also solitary fro |
| Fruit: | red, 1/4"-1/3" thick, round berry with a hollow center |
| Leaf: | 3 or 5 parted into sharply toothed leaflets, underside strongly whitened with soft gray fuzz |
| Habitat: | dry to moist; woods, fields, roadsides |
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