Thimbleberry or Black Raspberry

Thimbleberry or Black Raspberry

Rubus occidentalis

Rose Family - Rosaceae

White flowers (1/2" wide) with many stamens. Widely spaced petals about as long as sepals.  Fruit purplish black at maturity. (Photographed - June and July)

Stem whitish-green with sparse hooked prickles. Plant tends to arch over and may root at the tip.

Three leaflets each with many teeth.

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