Rubus glaucifolius
Species of flowering plant
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Rubus glaucifolius is a North American species of wild raspberry known by the common name San Diego raspberry.
| Rubus glaucifolius | |
|---|---|
Scientific 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] | |
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A tangling shrub, it has very slender, lightly prickly stems that spread and branch 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 0.5 cm long. The fruit is a lightly hairy red raspberry.[2]
It is native to Oregon and California, where it grows in mountain forests.[3]