Similar species: Page is under construction. Please see link below for general information on the genus Rubus.

Etymology: Rubus is the Latin name for bramble and also means red. Frondosus means fern-like.

Author: The Morton Arboretum

From Flora of Indiana (1940) by Charles C. Deam

In Flora of North America, this taxon is part of a broadly defined Rubus pensilvanicus (Species link).
Diagnostic Traits: central primocane leaflet ovate-elliptic to near orbicular; inflorescence leafy-racemose.