Rubus hirtusWaldst. & Kit.

WFO wfo-0001018892 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Rubus hirtus, photographed by Юрий Данилевский (Yuriy Danilevsky)
fig. a Юрий Данилевский (Yuriy Danilevsky), CC BY 4.0 / 2021-06-13 / obs. 139181058
Rubus hirtus, photographed by Юрий Данилевский (Yuriy Danilevsky)
fig. b Юрий Данилевский (Yuriy Danilevsky), CC BY 4.0 / obs. 101445243
Rubus hirtus, photographed by Dmitriy Bochkov
fig. c Dmitriy Bochkov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 110542567
Rubus hirtus, photographed by Kostas Zontanos
fig. d Kostas Zontanos, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 11175582
Rubus hirtus, photographed by Patrycja Iciek
fig. e Patrycja Iciek, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 202876961
Rubus hirtus, photographed by Vladimir
fig. f Vladimir, CC0 1.0 / obs. 192093210
Rubus hirtus, photographed by Alisa Vasilkova
fig. g Alisa Vasilkova, CC0 1.0 / obs. 169088923
Rubus hirtus, photographed by Kacper
fig. h Kacper, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 41131447

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Native range 24 botanical countries

Regions where Rubus hirtus is native: Iran, North Caucasus, Transcaucasus, Türkiye, Albania, Austria, Belarus, Bulgaria, Corse, Czechia-Slovakia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Krym, NW. Balkan Pen., Poland, Romania, Sardegna, Sicilia, Spain, Switzerland, Ukraine IranNorth CaucasusTranscaucasusTürkiyeAlbaniaAustriaBelarusBulgariaCorseCzechia-SlovakiaFranceGermanyGreeceHungaryItalyKrymNW. Balkan Pen.PolandRomaniaSiciliaSpainSwitzerlandUkraine Sardegna
Native distribution of Rubus hirtus, 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. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Albania ALB EUROPE
Austria AUT
Belarus BLR
Bulgaria BUL
Corse COR
Czechia-Slovakia CZE
France FRA
Germany GER
Greece GRC
Hungary HUN
Italy ITA
Krym KRY
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Poland POL
Romania ROM
Sardegna SAR
Sicilia SIC
Spain SPA
Switzerland SWI
Ukraine UKR
Iran IRN ASIA-TEMPERATE
North Caucasus NCS
Transcaucasus TCS
Türkiye TUR

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 43 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 brachyodon Sudre
  • Rubus ellipticus var. hirtus (Waldst. & Kit.) Hook.f.
  • Rubus fruticosus f. hirtus (Waldst. & Kit.) Kuntze
  • Rubus fruticosus subsp. glandulosus (Bellardi) Syme
  • Rubus fruticosus unranked glandulosus (Bellardi) Hegetschw.
  • Rubus fruticosus var. hirtus (Waldst. & Kit.) Syme
  • Rubus glandulosus Bellardi
  • Rubus glandulosus subsp. hirtus (Waldst. & Kit.) Čelak.
  • Rubus glandulosus var. hirtus (Waldst. & Kit.) Bréb.
  • Rubus gonzaloi Sennen
  • Rubus gracilicaulis Gremli
  • Rubus gracilicaulis var. eugracilicaulis Focke
  • Rubus guentheri var. ravus Kupcsok
  • Rubus hebecarpos f. gonzaloi (Sennen) Hruby
  • Rubus hirtus f. brachyodon Sudre
  • Rubus hirtus f. interruptus Sudre
  • Rubus hirtus f. tenuidentatus Sudre
  • Rubus hirtus prol. euhirtus Focke
  • Rubus hirtus subsp. declivis (Sudre) R.Keller
  • Rubus hirtus subsp. euhirtus (Focke) Focke
  • Rubus hirtus subsp. gracilicaulis (Gremli) Focke
  • Rubus hirtus subsp. tenuidentatus Sudre
  • Rubus hirtus unranked tenuiglandulosus (Gremli) Focke
  • Rubus hirtus var. callicarpus (Kupcsok) Sudre

and 19 more.

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.

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