Rubus pensilvanicus

Ubiquitous in a wide range of natural and disturbed habitats, including floodplain forests, swamps (all types), wet flatwoods, mesic to dry upland forests, woodlands, clearings, old fields, and roadsides. Common in the coastal Plain and piedmont; less so and mostly restricted to lower elevations in the mountains. This is the most common highbush blackberry at lower elevations in Virginia.