Rubus echinatusLindl.

WFO wfo-0001009225 Accepted WFO 2026-06 7 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–g · 3 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 3 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Rubus echinatus, photographed by Jenny Saito
fig. a Jenny Saito, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-15 / obs. 198026958
Rubus echinatus, photographed by Jenny Saito
fig. b Jenny Saito, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 198026973
Rubus echinatus, photographed by Tom Ferguson
fig. c Tom Ferguson, CC0 1.0 / obs. 192670233
Rubus echinatus, photographed by Jon Sullivan
fig. d Jon Sullivan, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 12011129
Rubus echinatus, photographed by Tom Ferguson
fig. e Tom Ferguson, CC0 1.0 / obs. 192670330
Rubus echinatus, photographed by Tom Ferguson
fig. f Tom Ferguson, CC0 1.0 / obs. 192670463
Rubus echinatus, photographed by Tom Ferguson
fig. g Tom Ferguson, CC0 1.0 / obs. 192670526

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Native range 3 botanical countries

Regions where Rubus echinatus is native: France, Great Britain, Ireland FranceIreland
Native distribution of Rubus echinatus, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
France FRA EUROPE
Great Britain GRB
Ireland IRE

Not drawn on the map: Great Britain. We hold no public-domain boundary for this region, so it is listed rather than guessed at.

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 12 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Rubus discerptus P.J.Müll.
  • Rubus discerptus var. microphyllus (A.Bloxam) W.C.R.Watson
  • Rubus fuscoater var. echinatus (Lindl.) Bab.
  • Rubus genevieri subsp. discerptus (P.J.Müll.) P.Fourn.
  • Rubus genevieri subsp. discerptus (P.J.Müll.) Sudre
  • Rubus pseudadenanthus W.C.R.Watson
  • Rubus radula subsp. discerptus (P.J.Müll.) Boulay
  • Rubus radula subsp. discerptus (P.J.Müll.) Corb.
  • Rubus radula var. echinatus (Lindl.) Nyman
  • Rubus rudis var. discerptus (P.J.Müll.) Malbr.
  • Rubus rudis var. microphyllus A.Bloxam
  • Rubus uncinatus subsp. discerptus (P.J.Müll.) Corb.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.