ILLINOIS PLANT INFORMATION NETWORK ILPIN INFORMATION ON Rubus phoenicolasius CLASS: DICOTYLEDENAE ORDER: ROSALES FAMILY: ROSACEAE SCIENTIFIC NAME: Rubus phoenicolasius AUTHORITY: Maxim. COMMON NAMES: WINEBERRY SYNONOMY: None PLANTS CODE: RUPH NATURAL COMMUNITIES: CULTURAL DEVELOPED LAND SAF FOREST COVER TYPE: UNAVAILABLE NATURAL DIVISION: UNAVAILABLE COUNTIES: JERSEY LAKE MASSAC MORGAN GROWTH FORM: Dicot-woody TAXONOMIC CHARACTERISTICS: ROOTS: Primary LEAF ARRANGEMENT: Alternate LEAF TYPE: Compound (trifoliate) LEAF MARGIN: Serrate LEAF VENATION: Pinnate LEAF SHAPE: Ovate INFLORESCENCE: Panicle FLOWER MEROUS: 5 FLOWER STRUCTURE: Complete Regular FLOWER COLOR: White FLOWER PLACEMENT: Perigynous FRUIT: Aggregate fruit DISTINGUISHING CHARACTERISTIC COMMENTS: Sterms, pedicels, sepals have dense red or purple, gland-tipped hairs; fruit is red. GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION: ORIGIN: Introduced- Asia POPULATION DYNAMICS: STATE STATUS: Not listed FEDERAL STATUS: Not listed COMMONNESS: Occasional ENDEMIC: NOT-ENDEMIC POPULATION STATUS COMMENTS: Species occasionally escapes from cultivation. BIOLOGIC: HABIT: Shrub LIFE CYCLE: Perennial FLOWERING PERIOD: MONTH BEGINNING- 5 MONTH END- 7 TROPHIC STATUS: Autotrophic C02 FIXATION: C3 SEX: Perfect ECODISTRIBUTION COMMENTS: Species is distributed along railroads, roadsides. ENVIRONMENTAL RELATIONSHIPS: No data entered FUNCTIONAL RELATIONSHIPS: No data entered HUMAN RELATIONSHIP DATA: No data entered WILDLIFE AND LIVESTOCK INFORMATION: No data entered REVEGETATION PLANTINGS: No data entered REFERENCES: Mohlenbrock, R. H., ed. 1975. Guide to the vascular flora of Illinois. Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale. 494 pp. Jones, G. N. 1963. Flora of Illinois. Third ed. American Midland Naturalist Monograph 7. University of Notre Dame, Indiana. 401 pp. Gleason, H. A., and A. Cronquist. 1963. Manual of vascular plants of north- eastern United States and adjacent Canada. Van Nostrand Reinhold Co., New York. 810 pp. Fernald, M. L. 1950. Gray's manual of botany. 8th ed. American Book Co., New York. 1632 pp. Swink, F., and G. S. Wilhelm. 1979. Plants of the Chicago region. Third ed. The Morton Arboretum, Lisle, Illinois. 922 pp. Downton, W. J. S. 1975. The occurrence of C4 photosynthesis among plants. Photosynthetica 9(1): 96-105. END OF DATA FOR SPECIES Rubus phoenicolasius ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ILPIN was developed by Louis Iverson*, with data compiled by David Ketzner and Jeanne Karnes Illinois Natural History Survey, 607 E. Peabody Dr., Champaign, IL 61820 *currently employed by USDA Forest Service, 359 Main Rd., Delaware, OH 43015