Wild Blackberry

(Rubus spp.)

Rosaceae (Rose Family)

▲▼ new growth in spring

▲▼ flowering plants

Wild Blackberry:  

· Clambering, spiny reddish to purplish woody stems with generally 5 leaflets per leaf, palmately arranged; some may have creeping roots; all can root wherever stem touches ground to increase colony size—so it is considered a type of creeping perennial

· Flowers five-petalled, white in late spring to early summer, with red to purple aggregate fruits following

· Found along wooded areas and in pastures; often avoided by livestock

· Some species difficult to kill, even with post-emergent herbicides

· Wild Raspberries can also be problems, but usually not as much as some of the blackberry species

o Usually have whitish-waxy coating on stems and leaf undersides and usually only 3 leaflets per leaf