Scientific name: Rubus caesius L.
Common name: Dewberry
Description
Habit: A spiny perennial.
Stems: Scrambling or creeping, woody, whitish with slender spines.
Leaves: Alternate, with small and narrow stipules fused with the leaf stalk, ternate; leaflets deeply toothed, sometimes lobed, the lateral ones unstalked.
Flowers: White, actinomorphic, hermaphrodite, white, solitary or in corymbs; calyx 5-toothed, calyx tube very shallow, sepals persistent; petals 5, free; stamens numerous; carpels numerous, on a conical receptacle; with flat hypanthium.
Fruits: A head of many 1-seeded drupes, dark purple with whitish bloom, partly enclosed by persistent sepals.
Habitat: Limestone rocks, especially around lakes and turloughs, very rare elsewhere.Distribution: Occasional to rare.
Native status: Native
Of conservation interest: No