Southern Dewberry

 (Rubus trivialis)

Characteristics

Leaves	Flowers	Fruit

Growing habit: Trailing, low-arching, thorned perennial

Root/stem anatomy: Fibrous from taproot

Leaves: Palmate leaves with 5 leaflets, turn red in late fall and winter

Reproduction: Solitary to 3-flowered cymes; petals obovate, white but occasionally pink

_{References: Weeds of the South by Charles T. Bryson and Michael S. DeFelice}