| Rubus pedatus Sm. | |||
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| Family | Rosaceae — APG family: Rosaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Dalibarda pedata (Sm.) Steph., Comaropsis pedata (Sm.) DC. | ||
| Description | Leaves and flowering stems from thin, creeping and branching rootstock; leaves digitately 5-foliate, leaflets obovate, double-serrate-dentate; petioles with brownish, entire stipules at base; flowers solitary; sepals oblong-lanceolate, acute or dentate at tip; petals white, as long as sepals or somewhat longer; fruit red, juicy, palatable. | ||
| Ecology | Moist woods. Described from northwestern North America. | ||
| Uses | The fruit makes an excellent jam, but the plant rarely occurs in large quantities. |
This is a digital representation of Eric Hultén’s ‘Flora of Alaska and Neighboring Territories: A Manual of the Vascular Plants’, which was published by Stanford University Press in 1968. The book was digitized by C. Webb (at UAMN) as part of the Flora of Alaska project, with funding by the US NSF (Grant 1759964 to Ickert-Bond & Webb), and with permission of Stanford University Press. Data and images © 1968 Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Jr. Univ. Usage licence: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0. NB: You may find OCR errors; please refer to the hard-copy if in doubt.