Rubus recurvans Blanchard

Rubus recurvans Blanchard, Rhodora 6: 224. 1904
Rubus arundelanus Blanchard, Rhodora 8: 176. 1906. Rubus Jeckylanus Blanchard, Rhodora 8: 177. 1906.
Stem biennial, terete, glabrous, armed with rather weak, straight, terete, slightly retrorse prickles, 1-2.5 m. long, at first often erect, later recurving and often rooting at the tips; leaves of the turions 5-foliolate; stipules subulate, 1-1.5 cm. long; petioles, petiolules, and mid veins rather sparingly pubescent and armed with retrorse flattened prickles ; leaflets glabrate or with scattered hairs above, densely and softly pilose beneath, yellowish-green, coarsely and doubly serrate, with lanceolate teeth, usually rather thin, abruptly long-acuminate; median leaflet broadly ovate, 7-12 cm. long, rounded or subcordate at the base, its petiolule 1-3 cm. long; lateral leaflets ovate, oval, or lanceolate, usually subsessile; floral branches 1—3 dm. long, villous, and somewhat prickly, not glandular; leaves 3-foliolate or the upper unif oliolate ; leaflets rhombic, obovate, or oblanceolate, short-acuminate at the apex, usually cuneate at the base, 4-7 cm. long, incisedly double-serrate, with lanceolate teeth; inflorescence a few-flowered corymb, leafy-bracted below; peduncles and pedicels villous; sepals ovate, 7-8 mm. long, abruptly acuminate, villous without, tomentose within; petals white, 12-15 mm. long, elliptic; fruit elongate, 1-1.5 cm. long, sweet; drupelets large, glabrous.
Type locality: Southern Vermont.
Distribution: Maine to Connecticut and northern New York.