This map has been generated using a programme created by
John Lowell for the South Lancashire 'snapshot flora' 1995-2005.
Distribution:
Locally abundant in the Leyland Hundred and extending from Freshfield Dune Heath in the west to the Clitheroe district in the east.
Habitat:
Hedgerows and woods.
Comments:
This bramble was collected from Hesketh Bank (SD42L, C Bailey, 1887, det. DP Earl, MANCH) and thought to have been determined as Rubus chloocladus W.C.R Watson (Savidge et al 1963). Plants resemble Rubus ulmifolius when growing in adverse conditions; in ideal conditions this taxa is however much more vigorous, the stems are hairy as for Rubus vestitus, the flowers are a pale pink and the anthers are densely hairy. This is a regional endemic occurring also in vice-counties 60 and 64 and extending northwards to the Lancaster area.