Purple Flowering Raspberries (Rubus odoratus) in a mossy, feen-dappled understory. Leaves are simple (not pinnately compound) with 5 prominent veins, 3 pointed out and 2 back.
Swamp Dewberries (Rubus hispidus) with bristly, thin-prickled lianas for stems, creeping around between logs, densely covering the ground with waxy, tripinnately compound leaves. A few flowers standing up above stems are showing off sets of 5 long ovate white petals and dense sprays of stamens.
Big, showy white flowers in dense clusters covering Allegheny Blackberries (R. allegheniesis) which lines the open edge of young woods. 5-part leaflets stand out on the bottom of the image, with 3 leaves pointing out, and two going back.
Northern Dewberry (Rubus flagellaris) creeping along dry leaf mulch in a pine barren. The duff here is mostly oak leaves. Berries stand on upright stalks above tripinnate leaves with toothy curled leaflets
Some favorite local #Rubus spp. Purple-flowering #Raspberries (R. odoratus) smells lovely and looks like a delicate rose. Swamp #Dewberries (R. hispidus) cover wet ground and Northern #Dewberry (R. flagellaris) dry. R. allegheniesis is the powerhouse #Blackberry.
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