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Northern dewberry

Rubus flagellaris

Also called American Dewberry, Whiplash Dewberry, Prickly Raspberry, Common Dewberry

Northern dewberry
Photo: James H. Miller & Ted Bodner, Southern Weed Science Society, Bugwood.org, CC BY-SA 3.0
Family
Rosaceae (Rose family)
Grows as
Shrub, Climber
Native range
E. Canada to C. & E. U.S.A., Arizona to Mexico
Climate
temperate

About

Rubus flagellaris is a North American species of dewberry in the genus Rubus, a member of the rose family. It is commonly known as northern dewberry and common dewberry. It is widely distributed across the southern and eastern United States into adjacent Canada.

Where it grows

Rubus flagellaris is native to the central and eastern United States (from Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Nebraska to the Gulf and East Coasts and the Great Lakes region), eastern Canada (Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia) and northern Mexico (Coahuila, Hidalgo, Nuevo León, San Luis Potosí, Sonora).

Uses

The ripe berries are edible and can be eaten raw. They are also used to make preserves, pies, and cobblers.

Other Rubus plants

Bundy Blackberry · Garden dewberry · Thorny dewberry · Windham County Blackberry · Rubus adenophorus · Tropical Highland Blackberry · Peaty dewberry · Alaska blackberry · Allegheny blackberry · Rubus alnifolius · Rubus alpinus · Maine dewberry

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Rubus flagellaris by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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