Vascular Plants of North Carolina
Account for Yankee Blackberry - Rubus frondosus   Bigelow
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AuthorBigelow
DistributionWeakley (2024) has this species listed as occurring in NC. SERNEC has specimens from Catawba County from 1956. This seems to be a recent split, or at least a re-defined split. As a result, the species is very poorly known to regional botanists, and its NC range is not known.

"ME and MN south to NC, SC, TN, AR, and OK" (Weakley 2024).

AbundanceCompletely unknown, but this is clearly a more Northern species, common in the Ohio Valley states and some states to our north. Thus, probably genuinely rare in NC. However, the website editors simply give a State Rank of SU = Undetermined.
Habitat"Old fields, fencerows" (Weakley 2024).
PhenologyNot known.
IdentificationSee the key in Weakley (2024).
Taxonomic CommentsThis taxon was one of many included within the huge R. pensilvanicus/argutus complex.

Other Common Name(s)Leafy-flowered Blackberry
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