Distribution: Occurring chiefly west of the Cascades crest in Washington; British Columbia to California, east to Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, and Colorado.

Habitat: Roadsides, forest understory and edge, thickets, and other disturbed areas, mostly at low elevations.

Flowers: June-August

Origin: Introduced from Europe

Growth Duration: Perennial

Conservation Status: Not of concern

Pollination: Apomixis, bumblebees, bees, beetles

Strongly armed, evergreen perennial with ascending to clambering stems to 10 m. long, the prickles flattened, recurved.

Leaves primarily 5-foliate, from deeply lobed to divided into secondary leaflets, these deeply incised to serrate, green and nearly glabrous above, copiously hairy beneath.

Flowers rather numerous in simple or compound, flat-topped, leafy racemes; calyx woolly and prickly, the 5 lobes lanceolate and tailed, reflexed, 8-15 mm. long; petals 5, pinkish, 9-14 mm. long, obovate and tri-lobed; stamens at least 75, pistils few.

Drupelets coherent, blackberry ovoid, 1-1.5 cm. thick, blackish