Dewberry.Rubus Canadensis.Running Blackberry.
Found in dry fields, banks, and roadsides in June and July.
The stalk trails and runs; it is leafy, stout, and woody-fibred, with few, and small, prickles. In color dark red.
The leaf is divided into 3, or 5, or 7 leaflets of an oval shape, the middle one generally being wedge-shape, and set on a short stem; the margins are sharply toothed. The color is a full, vigorous green.
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.