Stone Bramble

Rubus saxatilis L. Sp. PI. 494. 1753
A mostly herbaceous perennial, with a woody creeping branched rootstock; turions creeping, terete, green, sparingly pubescent, more or less bristly and glandular; flowerbearing branches erect from the rootstock, 1-3 dm. high, pubescent, bristly and glandular, especially above; leaves ternate; stipules oval or ovate on the floral shoots, lanceolate on the stolons, sometimes lobed, 5-20 mm. long; petioles 3-8 cm. long, pubescent; leaflets thin, green on both sides, coarsely and irregularly, simply or doubly serrate, acute, sparingly hairy; lateral leaflets 2-8 cm. long, subsessile, obliquely ovate or obovate, the terminal one broadly ovate, slightly larger, distinctly petioluled; petiolule 5-20 mm. long; lateral veins on each side 5-7 ; flowers few, in short-peduncled umbel-like clusters at the end of the stem and in the upper axils; sepals ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, grayish-pubescent, about 5 mm. long, in an thesis reflexed; petals erect, white, small, spatulate, about equaling the sepals; stamens numerous; filaments linear, dilated; fruit red, usually of 5 or 6 separate drupelets; putamen oblong,smooth or somewhat faveolate when dry.
Type locality: Stony hills of Europe.
Distribution: Southern Greenland; also in mountainous regions of Europe and northern and