The flower petals are 5, long, rounded at the tip and tapering at the base; in color they are pure white. The stamens and pistils are pale; the 5-parted calyx is a pale silvery green. The flowers grow singly, or loosely clustered in twos and threes.
The blossom of the Dewberry is sweet-scented, with a fragrance resembling that of the Anemone, or Adder’s-tongue. Its berry has fewer, and larger grains, than the High-bush berry; when favorably developed it has a fine wild flavor.
DEWBERRY: R. Canadensis.
| Running Swamp Blackberry. | Rubus hispidus. |
Found in swamp lands, grassy woods, and copse borders during June and July.
The trailing, rather slender, stalk runs on the ground in varying lengths; its prickles are few and weak. The color is green and brown.
The leaf is small, usually with 3 leaflets that are broad-oval or wedge-shaped; the margins are toothed, ribs marked, and the surface is smooth and shining, while the fibre is tough. The color is dark green.
The 5 small flower-petals are white; the stamens and pistils many, but inconspicuous; the calyx 5-parted, and pale green. The small clusters of two or three blossoms spring from the new shoots.
The fruit is scanty, and small. The pretty, dark, glossy, green leaves turn a rich dull bronzy-red in the fall, and remain so throughout snow-time,—they form a pleasing incident in the bouquet, gathered by the lover-of-the-woods-in-winter.