Rubus vestitus

Rubus vestitus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Rosids
Order: Rosales
Family: Rosaceae
Genus: Rubus
Subgenus: Rubus
Species: R. vestitus
Binomial name
Rubus vestitus
Weihe & Nees 1825 not Hegetschw. 1839 nor Wirtg. 1856 nor Holuby ex Focke 1877[1]
Synonyms[1]

Rubus vestitus is a European species of brambles in the rose family, called European blackberry[2] in the United States. It is native to Europe and naturalized along the northern Pacific Coast of the United States and Canada (British Columbia, Washington, Oregon).[2]

Rubus vestitus is a spiny shrub sometimes as much as 2 meters (80 inches) tall. Leaves are palmately compound with 3 or 5 leaflets, each leaflet wide, almost round, with a pointed tip and with teeth along the edges. Flowers are pink or magenta. Fruits are very dark, nearly black.[3]


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