Sand Blackberry (Rubus cuneifolius)

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A common blackberry in the Coastal Plain of North Carolina, Sand Blackberry also occurs in a few counties in the Piedmont.

Similar to other blackberries, such as the much more abundant Rubus argutus, but their leaves are densely white-hairy beneath. The leaflets are broadest beyond the middle and have somewhat rounded tips.

Crowder's Mountain State Park, Gaston Co., NC 4/16/2011.

The leaves also tend to have a distinctive pleated look to them.

Person Co., NC 6/13/06.

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