Rubus repens(L.) Kuntze

robin runaway

WFO wfo-0000988537 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Rubus repens, photographed by Steven Lamonde
fig. a Steven Lamonde, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-23 / obs. 201417698
Rubus repens, photographed by Alison Northup
fig. b Alison Northup, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201084134
Rubus repens, photographed by Steven Lamonde
fig. c Steven Lamonde, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 199201453
Rubus repens, photographed by Laura J. Costello
fig. d Laura J. Costello, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 196903559
Rubus repens, photographed by Steven Lamonde
fig. e Steven Lamonde, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 198956600
Rubus repens, photographed by Lynn Harper
fig. f Lynn Harper, CC0 1.0 / obs. 193709223
Rubus repens, photographed by Nick Kleinschmidt
fig. g Nick Kleinschmidt, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 194411234
Rubus repens, photographed by Nick Kleinschmidt
fig. h Nick Kleinschmidt, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 194410873

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Native range 21 botanical countries

Regions where Rubus repens is native: Connecticut, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New Brunswick, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Nova Scotia, Ohio, Ontario, Pennsylvania, Prince Edward I., Québec, Rhode I., Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia ConnecticutMaineMarylandMassachusettsMichiganMinnesotaNew BrunswickNew HampshireNew JerseyNew YorkNorth CarolinaNova ScotiaOhioOntarioPennsylvaniaPrince Edward I.QuébecVermontVirginiaWest Virginia Rhode I.
Native distribution of Rubus repens, 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
Connecticut CNT NORTHERN AMERICA
Maine MAI
Maryland MRY
Massachusetts MAS
Michigan MIC
Minnesota MIN
New Brunswick NBR
New Hampshire NWH
New Jersey NWJ
New York NWY
North Carolina NCA
Nova Scotia NSC
Ohio OHI
Ontario ONT
Pennsylvania PEN
Prince Edward I. PEI
Québec QUE
Rhode I. RHO
Vermont VER
Virginia VRG
West Virginia WVA

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.

Flowering 410 in flower of 473 examined

Peak flowering in Jul. Each bar is the share of Rubus repens observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 410 of 473 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 5 months have fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for them. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Also published as 6 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.

  • Dalibarda cordata Stephan
  • Dalibarda repens L.
  • Dalibarda violioides Michx.
  • Rubus dalibarda L.
  • Rubus dalibarda f. caespitosus Kuntze
  • Rubus dalibarda f. laciniostipulatus Kuntze

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. USDA PLANTS Database. common name, checklist symbol DARE. public domain. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. 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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