Rubus occidentalis L.

• Region

  North America

• Country

  United States of America

• State/Province

  Wisconsin

• County/Municipio

  Richland Co.

• Locality

  3.8 km E of Gotham, Button Bluff, NE of Button Cemetery along Hwy. JJ

• Elevation

  Alt. 225 m. (738 ft.)

• Coordinates

  43.2186, -90.2431

• Distribution

  Map all specimens of this taxon

Rosaceae Rubus occidentalis L.
det. M. Nee, 2016
WISCONSIN, Richland Co., 3.8 km E of Gotham, Button
Bluff, NE of Button Cemetery along Hwy. JJ.
43°13’07”N, 90°14’35”W. alt. 225 m.
T 9 N; R 2 E; NEMNWV4 Sect. 34.
Base of S-facing Wisconsin River valley bluff at edge of
nearly flat agricultural field with wheat, com or soybeans; soil
sandy. Young woods of Celtis occidentalis, Prunns virginiana,
Morus alba, Zanthoxylum americanum, with a few old, open-
grown Quercus macrocarpa.
Common here and in brushy areas. Shrubs forming masses,
arching and scrambling, to 4.5 m. long where into shrubs, but
mostly less than 1.5 m. tall; the canes later in the season will
root at the tips where these reach the ground. Leaves whitened
beneath. Primocanes (growing in 2016) very glaucous;
primocane leaves variable, some 5-foliolate, whitened beneath,
the leaves on floricanes smaller and 3-foliolate. The wood
specimen from floricanes (growing in 2015 and 2016), brown,
with light tan pith and very little wood. Voucher for wood
specimens in Kw, Lw, MADw. Fruit borne on the
floricanes, yellow-green, then red, then black, sweet and juicy,
the druplets falling as a unit and separating from the axis.
Coll.: M. Nee 63022	25 June 2016
Missouri Botanical Garden (MO)
03198147