Scientific Name: Rubus laciniatus
Common Name: cutleaf evergreen blackberry
Family Name: Rosaceae
Origin: Europe
Hardiness Zone: Zone 3: (-40 to -34 °C)
Plant Type: Invasive plant, Vine or climber
Mature Size: 1.3 - 2.0m x 3 - 4m (height x width)
Habit: Arching, Spreading
Form: Creeping / Mat-like, Irregular
Texture: Medium
Landscape Uses: Attract birds, Security/barrier
Exposure: Full sun, Part sun/part shade
Soil or Media:
Leaves: Compound, Alternate, Soft flexible, Glabrous, Odd-pinnate, Ovate, Lacerate, Spinose
Flowers: White, Jun-Jul
Fruit: Aggregate fruit, Drupe, Edible, Black, Jul-Aug
Key ID Features:
Invasive evergreen vine with long, spreading, or trailing shoots (brambles); leaves prickly, alternate, palmately compound, 3-5 leaflets which are usually subdivided into 3 dissected pinnae, margin spinose, pubescent underside.