Rubus pubescens Raf.
Dwarf Red Raspberry (dwarf red blackberry; Five-leaved Bramble; trailing raspberry)
Rosaceae (Rose family)

Introduction to Vascular Plants

Photograph

© Jamie Fenneman     (Photo ID #26128)


Map

E-Flora BC Static Map

Distribution of Rubus pubescens
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SUBTAXA PRESENT IN BC

Rubus pubescens var. pubescens

Species Information

General:
Perennial herb from a rhizome, with slender trailing stems and erect flowering shoots; vegetative stems at first ascending then reclining, creeping and whip-like,10-100 cm long, often rooting at the nodes and becoming semi-woody, soft-hairy; flowering shoots erect, 15-50 cm tall, leafy, unarmed, soft-hairy.
Leaves:
Alternate, deciduous, long-stalked, palmately compound, the stalks hairy; leaflets 3, egg-shaped, 2-6 cm long, coarsely single- or double-toothed except near the base, greenish and smooth to hairy above, pale and somewhat hairy especially on the veins beneath; stipules lanceolate.
Flowers:
Inflorescence of 1 to 3 stalked flowers on erect leafy shoots, the stalks with raised glands; corollas white, rarely pale pink, the petals 5, lance-oblong to spoon-shaped, 4-10 mm long, erect; calyces hairy and often glandular, 5-lobed, the lobes lanceolate, 3-7 mm long, bent back; ovaries superior; stamens numerous, the filaments broad and flattened.
Fruits:
Drupelets, smooth, several, weakly coherent in a dark-red globe-shaped cluster that tardily separates from the spongy receptacle (blackberry-like), the berries to 1 cm wide.

SourceThe Illustrated Flora of British Columbia

Ecology

Ecological Framework for Rubus pubescens

The table below shows the species-specific information calculated from
original data (BEC database) provided by the BC Ministry of Forests and Range.
(Updated August, 2013)

Site Information
Value / Class

Avg

Min

Max

Elevation (metres)
876 6 2070
Slope Gradient (%)
9 -2 205

Aspect (degrees)
[0 - N; 90 - E; 180 - S; 270 - W]

352 0 360
Soil Moisture Regime (SMR)
[0 - very xeric; 4 - mesic;
8 - hydric]
4 1 8
Modal Nutrient Regime
Class
C
# of field plots
 species was recorded in:
4358
Modal BEC Zone Class
SBS

All BEC Zones (# of stations/zone) species was recorded in

BG(1), BWBS(820), CWH(7), ESSF(179), ICH(609), IDF(226), MH(1), MS(271), PP(1), SBPS(140), SBS(1818), SWB(21)

Habitat and Range

Moist to wet forests, thickets, streambanks, swamps and bogs in the montane zone; common throughout BC east of the Coast-Cascade Mountains; N to NT, E to NF and S to WA, CO, SD, IN, WV and NJ.

SourceThe Illustrated Flora of British Columbia