| This trailing shrub occurs in all regions of North Carolina, but is most common in the Coastal Plain, nearly absent from the Mountains. Similar to other dewberries, it differs from Common Dewberry Rubus flagellaris by having bristles and lacking stout-based curving prickles on the stem. It differs from Swamp Dewberry (Rubus hispidus) by having usually only a single flower per flowering branch and by having some glandular bristles on the stem. Madison Co., NC 4/9/2012.
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| The white flowers are are usually solitary at the ends of short flowering branches. Madison Co., NC 4/9/2012.
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| Madison Co., NC 4/9/2012.
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| The trailing stems have glandular bristles. Madison Co., NC 4/9/2012.
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| Madison Co., NC 4/9/2012.
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| The flowers are a popular nectar source for many insects, such as this Zabulon Skipper. Madison Co., NC 4/9/2012.
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| Madison Co., NC 4/9/2012.
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| Madison Co., NC 4/9/2012.
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