- Rubus villosus L. - Rubus fructicosus - Rose family Wild
western thimbleberries Parts Usually Used Roots, leaves, fruit
Description of Plant(s) and Blackberry is a trailing perennial
plant; the slender branches feature sharp, recurved prickles.
The leaves are finely hairy or almost glabrous and pinnate with
3-5 leaflets. The leaflets are ovate and doubly serrate. The
upper leaves are sometimes simple and palmately lobed. The
white, five-petaled flowers appear from June to September. The
fruit is an aggregate of black drupelets collectively called the
blackberry. Grows in dry or sandy soil, along woodland edges, in
hedge rows, along roadsides, and on disturbed ground in the
northeastern and middle states of the United States. and is
cultivated elsewhere. West into Minnesota and south to
Tennessee. Astringent (leaves and roots), hemostatic, nutritive,
refrigerant, tonic Isocitric, and malic acids; sugars, pectin,
monoglycoside of cyanidin, tannin (high in root bark and
leaves), iron, carbohydrates, sodium, ma