Rubus alumnus

Rubus alumnus is a North American species of highbush blackberry in section Alleghenienses of the genus Rubus, a member of the rose family.^[2] It is native to eastern and central Canada (Ontario, Québec, Nova Scotia) and the eastern and central United States (from Maine south to North Carolina and west as far as Oklahoma, Kansas, and Minnesota).^[3][4]

Rubus alumnus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Rosids
Order:	Rosales
Family:	Rosaceae
Genus:	Rubus
Species:	R. alumnus
Binomial name
Rubus alumnus L.H.Bailey 1923
Synonyms[1]
Synonymy Rubus apianus L.H.Bailey Rubus barbarus L.H.Bailey Rubus bellobatus L.H.Bailey Rubus campester L.H.Bailey Rubus corei L.H.Bailey Rubus facetus L.H.Bailey Rubus fernaldianus L.H.Bailey Rubus impos L.H.Bailey Rubus independens L.H.Bailey Rubus licitus L.H.Bailey Rubus miriflorus L.H.Bailey Rubus ostryifolius Rydb. Rubus parcifrondifer L.H.Bailey Rubus pubifolius L.H.Bailey Rubus tennesseanus L.H.Bailey

References

1. The Plant List, Rubus alumnus L.H.Bailey
2. Bailey, L.H. (1944b). "Species batorum. The genus Rubus in North America. VIII. Alleghenienses". Gentes Herbarum. 3: 504–588.
3. Biota of North America Program 2014 county distribution map
4. Bailey, Liberty Hyde. 1941. Gentes Herbarum; Occasional Papers on the Kinds of Plants 5(1): 82–84, figure 28

External links

• photo of herbarium specimen at Missouri Botanical Garden, collected in Missouri in 1997
• "Rubus parcifrondifer". Plants for a Future.
• "Rubus bellobatus". Plants for a Future.
• "Rubus ostryfolius". Plants for a Future.