Rubus glaucifolius

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Rubus glaucifolius
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Rosales
Family: Rosaceae
Genus: Rubus
Species:
R. glaucifolius
Binomial name
Rubus glaucifolius
Kellogg 1873
Synonyms[1]
  • Melanobatus glaucifolius (Kellogg) Greene

Rubus glaucifolius is a North American species of wild raspberry known by the common name San Diego raspberry. It is native to Oregon and California, where it grows in mountain forests.[2]

Rubus glaucifolius is a tangling shrub with very slender, lightly prickly stem spreading and branching outward. The leaves are each made up of usually three lobed, toothed leaflets, sometimes five. Each leaflet is veined and wrinkly in texture, white on the underside because of a waxy coating along the surface, and up to 5 centimeters (2 inches) long. The inflorescence is a solitary flower or an array of a few flowers with five reflexed sepals and five white petals each about half a centimeter long. The fruit is a lightly hairy red raspberry.[3]

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  • Rubus glaucifolius in the CalPhotos photo database, University of California, Berkeley
  • "Rubus glaucifolius". Calflora. Berkeley, California: The Calflora Database.
  • Jepson Manual Treatment - Rubus glaucifolius