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Swamp Dewberry - Rubus hispidus
This plant has white flowers in early to mid-summer, which are replaced by clusters of drupes. Immature drupes are light green or white, then become red during an intermediate stage, and finally blackish when ripe. The drupes consist of druplets, each of which contains a single seed. The mature drupes are sour in flavor. The leaves are semi-evergreen and often turn reddish in the autumn.
Habitat: Growing along the edge of a pond in a mixed forest
''Rubus hispidus'', with the common names swamp dewberry, bristly dewberry, bristly groundberry, groundberry, hispid swamp blackberry or running swamp blackberry, is North American species of dewberry in the rose family.
The plant grows in moist or sometimes dry soils, ditches, swales or open woods in central and eastern North America, from Ontario and Minnesota east to Newfoundland, and south to South Carolina and Mississippi.
