Rubus odoratus
Common name:
Flowering Raspberry
Purple-flowering Raspberry
Pronunciation:
RU-bus or-do-RA-tus
Family:
Rosaceae
Genus:
Type:
Broadleaf
Native to (or naturalized in) Oregon:
No
- Broadleaf deciduous shrub, usually grows to 3-6 ft (0.9-1.8 m) high, suckering, wide spreading, shoots erect, lack prickles, stems woody, very pale brown, peeling bark. Leaves alternate, simple, large, 10-25 cm wide, palmately 3-5 lobed, each broadly triangular, middle lobe longest, base cordate, margin finely serrate. Flowers 3-5 cm wide, fragrant, pink-purple, many per short cluster (panicle); blooms in June-August. Fruit red, broadly hemispherical, similar in appearance to a raspberry; edible but slightly dry, crumbly and unappetizing.
- Sun or shade
- Hardy to USDA Zone 3 Native to eastern North America, from Nova Scotia to Michigan, Tennessee, and Georgia. Sometimes called a thimbleberry, but this common name is usually more appropriate for the similar but white-flowered Rubus parviflorus of western North America.
- odoratus: fragrant, reference to the flowers.