Rubus roribaccus

Rubus roribaccus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Rosids
Order:	Rosales
Family:	Rosaceae
Genus:	Rubus
Species:	R. roribaccus
Binomial name
Rubus roribaccus (L.H.Bailey) Rydb.
Synonyms[1][2]
Synonymy Rubus canadensis var. roribaccus L.H.Bailey 1890 Rubus flagellaris var. roribaccus (L.H.Bailey) L.H.Bailey Rubus procumbens var. roribaccus (L.H.Bailey) L.H.Bailey Rubus villosus var. roribaccus (L.H.Bailey) L.H.Bailey Rubus flagellaris var. occidualis L.H.Bailey Rubus imperiorum Fernald Rubus injunctus L.H.Bailey Rubus occidualis (L.H.Bailey) L.H.Bailey Rubus pauperrimus L.H.Bailey Rubus pluralis (L.H.Bailey) L.H.Bailey Rubus temerarius L.H.Bailey

Rubus roribaccus is a North American species of dewberry in the genus Rubus, a member of the rose family. It is commonly known as Lucretia dewberry and velvet-leaf dewberry.^[3] It grows in eastern Canada (Québec) and the eastern and central United States (from New York and Massachusetts south to the Carolinas and west as far as Oklahoma, Kansas, and Nebraska).^[4][5]

References

1. The Plant List, Rubus roribaccus (L.H.Bailey) Rydb.
2. Tropicos, Rubus roribaccus (L.H. Bailey) Rydb.
3. Rydberg, Per Axel 1901. in Britton, Nathaniel Lord, Manual of the Flora of the northern States and Canada 498
4. Biota of North America Program 2014 state-level distribution map
5. Bailey, Liberty Hyde 1890. American Garden 11(11): 642

External links

• Photo of herbarium specimen at Missouri Botanical Garden, collected in Missouri in 1932