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|accepted_name=Rubus ulmifolius
|accepted_authority=Schott
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Isis (Oken)
|place=1818: 821. 1818
|year=1818
}}
|common_names=Elm-leaf blackberry
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=I
|label=Introduced
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|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Rubus discolor
|authority=Weihe & Nees
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|name=R. ulmifolius var. anoplothyrsus
|authority=Sudre
}}
|hierarchy=Rosaceae;Rosaceae subfam. Rosoideae;Rosaceae tribe Rubeae;Rubus;Rubus ulmifolius
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Rosaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Rosaceae subfam. Rosoideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Rosaceae tribe Rubeae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Rubus]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Rubus ulmifolius]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 9
|mention_page=page 31, 36, 37, 55, 56
|treatment_page=page 54
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Shrubs,</b> 30–50 dm, unarmed or armed. <b>Stems</b> biennial, erect, then arching, usually moderately, rarely sparsely, hairy hairs stellate, eglandular, strongly pruinose; prickles absent or sparse to dense, erect to hooked, stout, 3–10 mm, broad-based. <b>Leaves</b> persistent or nearly so, ternate to palmately compound; stipules filiform to linear, 4–12 mm; leaflets 3–5, terminal ovate, elliptic, or suborbiculate to obovate, 4–10 × 2–6(–9) cm, base rounded to cuneate, unlobed, margins finely to moderately serrate, apex acute or acuminate to attenuate, abaxial surfaces with hooked prickles on larger veins, densely white short-velutinous, hairs usually minute, eglandular. <b>Inflorescences</b> terminal, 10–60-flowered, paniculiform or thyrsiform. <b>Pedicels</b> unarmed or prickles moderate to dense, erect to hooked, densely short-hairy, eglandular. <b>Flowers</b> bisexual; petals usually pink, sometimes white, obovate or elliptic to suborbiculate, 5–12 mm; filaments filiform; ovaries apically hairy. <b>Fruits</b> black, globose to ovoid, 1–1.5 cm; drupelets 10–40, strongly coherent, separating with torus attached. <b>2n</b> = 14.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering May–Jul.
|habitat=Woodland edges, open areas, disturbed areas, moist soil
|elevation=0–500 m
|distribution=Calif.;Nev.;N.J.;Oreg.;Wash.;s;c Europe;n Africa;introduced also in s South America.
|discussion=<p><i>Rubus ulmifolius</i> can be distinguished, especially from the closely related <i>R. bifrons</i> and <i>R. vestitus</i>, by its strongly pruinose stems, finely serrate leaflets, and lack of glands throughout. Unlike <i>R. ulmifolius</i>, strongly pruinose native <i>Rubus</i> species lack relatively large and showy pink petals. Some new stems developing from tip-rooting, and early leaves on such stems (especially in shade), are not whitened abaxially and are tomentose. Such unusual stems develop typical leaves and surfaces in parts formed later.</p><!--
--><p>There has been nomenclatural confusion over unarmed plants of <i>Rubus ulmifolius</i> (see E. Monasterio-Huelin and H. E. Weber 1996). <i>Rubus</i> inermis Willdenow is an illegitimate later homonym of R. inermis Pourret, and the type specimens for both names are of poor-quality. If an unarmed variety of <i>R. ulmifolius</i> is to be recognized, such as occurs in California, the name var. anoplothyrsus Sudre should be used instead of var. inermis (Willdenow) Focke.</p><!--
--><p><i>Rubus ulmifolius</i> is attractive and is potentially weedy but relatively uncommon, found primarily in coastal California from the San Francisco Bay region southward. It probably no longer persists in New Jersey, last collected there in 1897, and it is rare in <i>Nevada</i> and Oregon. <i>Rubus ulmifolius</i> likely hybridizes with <i>R. bifrons</i> where they co-occur; it is one of relatively few diploid and sexually reproducing species of European blackberries.</p>
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name=Rubus ulmifolius
|author=
|authority=Schott
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Rubus discolor;R. ulmifolius var. anoplothyrsus
|basionyms=
|family=Rosaceae
|phenology=Flowering May–Jul.
|habitat=Woodland edges, open areas, disturbed areas, moist soil
|elevation=0–500 m
|distribution=Calif.;Nev.;N.J.;Oreg.;Wash.;s;c Europe;n Africa;introduced also in s South America.
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=Isis (Oken)
|publication year=1818
|special status=Introduced
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|subfamily=Rosaceae subfam. Rosoideae
|tribe=Rosaceae tribe Rubeae
|genus=Rubus
|species=Rubus ulmifolius
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