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Rubus frondosus

species of plant

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 7, 2025
Entity authorityQ17248141 ↗
Source-derived summary

Rubus frondosus is a North American species of blackberry in the genus Rubus, a member of the rose family. It has been found in Ontario and in the eastern and central United States from Maine south to Georgia and west as far as Oklahoma, Nebraska, and Minnesota.

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External links

Data related to Rubus frondosus at Wikispecies

Photo of herbarium specimen at Missouri Botanical Garden, collected in 1878

"Rubus frondosus". Plants for a Future.

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The public source identifies “Rubus frondosus” as species of plant. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Rubus, frondosus and species.

Editorial reviewUseful for establishing the present vocabulary of the subject while preserving a route back to the evidence on which that vocabulary rests. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1878—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Rubus, frondosus and species providing the first useful test.
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The date and method of observation matter as much as the stated conclusion, especially where classification or consensus has changed. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 7, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q17248141. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1878.

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This entry incorporates text from “Rubus frondosus” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.