Similar species: Page is under construction. Please see link below for general information on the genus Rubus.

Flowering: mid April to late June

Habitat and ecology: Locally common in shaded bogs, common in wet mesic swamp forests near dunes, also found on springy slopes and in flatwoods.

Occurence in the Chicago region: native

Etymology: Rubus is the Latin name for bramble and also means red. Pubescens means hairy.

Author: The Morton Arboretum

Restricted to the lake area where it is generally found in tamarack bogs and rarely in low, mucky woods.

Horizontal stems long-creeping at or near the surface of the soil, ±leafy when aerial; upright stems arising near the base or along the length of the horizontal ones, herbaceous, unarmed, rarely with a few bristles, 1.5-5 dm, bearing 2-5 long-petiolate 3-foliolate lvs with oblanceolate stipules; lfls rhombic-ovate to obovate, 4-8 cm, acute or acuminate, sharply toothed especially beyond the middle, tending to be entire along the cuneate lower portion; peduncle terminal, 1-3-fld, occasionally 1 or 2 additional fls arising from the axils; pedicels usually with a few stipitate glands; pet white, seldom pink, 4-8 mm; fr dark red, 5-10 mm thick, only tardily separating from the spongy receptacle; 2n=14, 28. Damp woods and bogs; Lab. to Yukon and B.C., s. to N.H., W.Va., Ind., Colo., and Wash. May-July. (R. triflorus)

Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp.

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