''Rubus recurvans'' is a North American species of
highbush blackberry in section Arguti of the genus
''Rubus'', a member of the
rose family. It is found in eastern and central Canada (
Québec
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,
Ontario,
Nova Scotia) and in the eastern and north-central United States (from
Maine west to
Minnesota, south as far as
Missouri, the
Ohio River
The Ohio River is a long river in the United States. It is located at the boundary of the Midwestern and Southern United States, flowing southwesterly from western Pennsylvania to its mouth on the Mississippi River at the southern tip of Illino ...
, and
Virginia).
Biota of North America Program 2014 state-level distribution map
/ref>[Blanchard, William Henry 1904. Rhodora 6(71): 224–225]
/ref> The specific epithet ''recurvans'' refers to the tendency of the primocanes to recurve, a trait that is not shared with similar tall blackberries.
References
recurvans
Plants described in 1904
Flora of Canada
Flora of the United States
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