A common blackberry in the Coastal Plain of North Carolina, Sand Blackberry also occurs in a few counties in the Piedmont.
Similar to other blackberries, such as the much more abundant Rubus argutus, but their leaves are densely white-hairy beneath. The leaflets are broadest beyond the middle and have somewhat rounded tips.
Crowder's Mountain State Park, Gaston Co., NC 4/16/2011.
Crowder's Mountain State Park, Gaston Co., NC 4/16/2011.
