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Photographer: Kenneth J. Sytsma
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Family Rosaceae
Rubus hispidus L.
bristly dewberry, swamp dewberry
Rubus: Latin name for "bramble" or "blackberry"
hispidus: fine-hairy
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| Status: | Native |
| Plant: | trailing, perennial shrub; first year's canes normally rooting at the tip, small thorns thin and mostly straight |
| Flower: | white, 5-parted, 1/2"-3/4" wide; inflorescence of several to many short-stalked flowers in raceme-like cluster; blooms June-Aug. |
| Fruit: | reddish-black, sour berry |
| Leaf: | 3 or 5 parted into toothed leaflets; dark green and shiny |
| Habitat: | swamps, acidic woods, bogs |
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