Rubus. Rubus cuneifolius . Rubus trivialis . Both from Britton and Brown 1897.

Hogan (1978) found pollen of Rubus at the Fort Center Glades village on Lake Okeechobee. Presumably, they were using the plants as have people throughout the range of the genus. It is known that the Timucua also used blackberries (Hann 1986). Fruits of all species were eaten as food (Hedrick 1919, Yanovsky 1936, Moerman 1998), and at least the Choctaw, Creek, Koasati, and Yuchi recognized a “blackberry month.”