Wild Blackberry

Wild Blackberry

(Rubus spp.)

Rosaceae (Rose Family)

▲ ▼ new growth in spring

▲ ▼ flowering plants

Wild Blackberry:

  • Clambering, spiny reddish to purplish woody stems with generally 5 leaflets per leaf, palmately arranged; some may have creeping roots; all can root wherever stem touches ground to increase colony size--so it is considered a type of creeping perennial
  • Flowers five-petalled, white in late spring to early summer, with red to purple aggregate fruits following
  • Found along wooded areas and in pastures; often avoided by livestock
  • Some species difficult to kill, even with post-emergent herbicides
  • Wild Raspberries can also be problems, but usually not as much as some of the blackberry species
    • Usually have whitish-waxy coating on stems and leaf undersides and usually only 3 leaflets per leaf

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