Rubus hispidus
Credits
Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles
Recommended citation
'Rubus hispidus' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.
Genus
Other taxa in genus
- Rubus adenophorus
- Rubus amabilis
- Rubus biflorus
- Rubus caesius
- Rubus calycinoides
- Rubus chroosepalus
- Rubus cissoides
- Rubus cockburnianus
- Rubus corchorifolius
- Rubus coreanus
- Rubus crataegifolius
- Rubus deliciosus
- Rubus flagelliflorus
- Rubus flosculosus
- Rubus henryi
- Rubus hupehensis
- Rubus ichangensis
- Rubus idaeus
- Rubus illecebrosus
- Rubus irenaeus
- Rubus koehneanus
- Rubus kuntzeanus
- Rubus laciniatus
- Rubus lambertianus
- Rubus lasiostylus
- Rubus lineatus
- Rubus malifolius
- Rubus mesogaeus
- Rubus nepalensis
- Rubus × nobilis
- Rubus occidentalis
- Rubus odoratus
- Rubus palmatus
- Rubus parkeri
- Rubus parviflorus
- Rubus parvifolius
- Rubus parvus
- Rubus pedunculosus
- Rubus phoenicolasius
- Rubus playfairianus
- Rubus setchuenensis
- Rubus spectabilis
- Rubus subornatus
- Rubus thibetanus
- Rubus trianthus
- Rubus tricolor
- Rubus trifidus
- Rubus ulmifolius
A low semi-evergreen shrub, with mostly prostrate, very slender, wiry stems, armed with tiny decurved spines and more or less covered with bristles. Leaves trifoliolate, the common stalk longer than the leaflets, which are short-stalked, obovate, tapering to the base, sharply and coarsely toothed towards the apex, 1 to 13⁄4 in. long, 1⁄2 to 1 in. wide, glabrous or nearly so on both surfaces. Flowers white, 1⁄2 to 3⁄4 in. across, produced in few-flowered corymbs from the leaf-axils and the ends of erect shoots 6 to 12 in. high. Fruits at first turning red, nearly black when ripe, less than 1⁄2 in. long, and composed of few carpels, sour.
Native of eastern N. America; introduced in 1768, but rarely seen nowadays. It flowers in June and July. Growing very quickly, it soon forms a low, dense tangle, and makes a pretty almost evergreen ground cover.