Rubus alumnus

{{Short description|Berry and plant}}

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|genus = Rubus

|species = alumnus

|authority = L.H.Bailey 1923

|synonyms_ref = [http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl1.1/record/rjp-4110 The Plant List, Rubus alumnus L.H.Bailey ]

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|Rubus apianus L.H.Bailey

|Rubus barbarus L.H.Bailey

|Rubus bellobatus L.H.Bailey

|Rubus campester L.H.Bailey

|Rubus corei L.H.Bailey

|Rubus facetus L.H.Bailey

|Rubus fernaldianus L.H.Bailey

|Rubus impos L.H.Bailey

|Rubus independens L.H.Bailey

|Rubus licitus L.H.Bailey

|Rubus miriflorus L.H.Bailey

|Rubus ostryifolius Rydb.

|Rubus parcifrondifer L.H.Bailey

|Rubus pubifolius L.H.Bailey

|Rubus tennesseanus L.H.Bailey

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Rubus alumnus is a North American species of highbush blackberry in section Alleghenienses of the genus Rubus, a member of the rose family.{{Cite journal |last=Bailey |first=L.H. |date=1944b |title=Species batorum. The genus Rubus in North America. VIII. Alleghenienses. |journal=Gentes Herbarum |volume=3 |pages=504–588}} It is native to eastern and central Canada (Ontario, Québec, Nova Scotia) and the eastern and central United States (from Maine south to North Carolina and west as far as Oklahoma, Kansas, and Minnesota).[http://bonap.net/MapGallery/County/Rubus%20alter.png Biota of North America Program 2014 county distribution map]Bailey, Liberty Hyde. 1941. Gentes Herbarum; Occasional Papers on the Kinds of Plants 5(1): 82–84, figure 28