Rubus vestitus

Rubus vestitus is a European species of brambles in the rose family, called European blackberry in the United States. Rubus vestitus is a spiny shrub sometimes as much as 2 metres (6+1⁄2 feet) tall. The leaves are palmately compound with 3 or 5 leaflets, each leaflet wide, almost round, with a pointed tip and with teeth along the edges. The flowers are pink or magenta. The fruits are very dark, nearly black. The species is native to Europe and naturalized along the northern Pacific coast of Canada and the United States (British Columbia, Washington, and Oregon). It is one of the most common species of bramble in the British Isles, found in most vice-counties, apart from the far north. Its preference for neutral to slightly alkaline soils places it among a minority of European Rubus species....read more on Wikipedia.