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