Shrub or cane, perennial, native to Eastern N. America from Nova Scotia to Ontario, New York, Virginia and North Carolina south. Found in dry thickets, clearings and woodland margins, fence rows, open meadows, roadsides and waste places. When the flowers bloom in the wild it is a beautiful sight, hillsides and fields are covered with white flowers.
Blackberry canes are long and very thorny, growing in groups or thickets.
Canes branch and can grow up to 15 feet or more in length and thickets can extend to hundreds of square acres in an area. Canes die off after 2 to 3 years but are usually retained in the thickets making them largely impenetrable. Leaves are light green, serrate and palmate with 3 to five leaflets or fingers, the main vein on the back of each leaflet has thorns. May. Fruit is usually ripe in late June through July. Gather edible fruit when ripe, can be frozen or canned for later use.