| Rubus pubescens Raf. | |||
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| Family | Rosaceae — APG family: Rosaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Rubus saxatilis var. canadensis Michx. | ||
| Description | Stem trailing, with erect flowering branches and elongated vegetative shoots, ending in flagelliform, rooting tips; leaves pedately 3-foliate; leaflets ovate to del- toid, coarsely double-serrate-dentate, nearly glabrous; calyx lobes linear; petals white; fruit dark red, juicy. | ||
| Ecology | Thickets, shores. Described from Hudson Bay. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Forms hybrid swarms with R. arcticus subsp. acaulis [R. paracaulis Bailey; R. pubescens var. paracaulis (Bailey) Boiv.]. Broken line on circumpolar map indicates range of the Eurasian counterpart, R. saxatilis L. |
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.