Rubus egglestonii

Rubus egglestonii Blanchard, Torreya 7: 140. 1907
Rubus idaeus anomalus Fernald, Rhodora 2: 195. 1900. Not R. idaeus anomalus Arrh. 1839.
Stems biennial, 2-3 dm. high, sparingly and finely bristly, reddish-strawcolored; leaves of the turions usually 3-foliolate; stipules setaceous; petioles 2-3 cm. long; leaflets sessile, rounded, double-toothed, with broad mucronulate teeth, glabrous and green above, whitetomentose beneath; leaves of the flowering branches simple, more or less distinctly 3-lobed, reniform in outline, 2-3 cm. long, 3-4 cm. broad; flowers 2-4 in small terminal corymbs; peduncles, pedicels, hypanthium, and calyx glandular-hispid; sepals elliptic, obtuse or merely mucronulate, tomentose within, 3-4 mm. long; petals white, elliptic, about as long as the sepals; fruit rare, hemispheric, of rather few tomentose drupelets.
Type locality: Cavendish, Vermont.
Distribution: Mountains of Vermont.