Family: Rosaceae
Scientific Name: Rubus odoratus
Common Name: Purple Flowering Raspberry, Thimbleberry
| Description | A shrubby wild flower with large rose-purple flowers and edible fruit. |
| Plant Type | All Plants, Wild Flowers |
| Hardiness Zone | 5 |
| Sunlight | full to shade, has good shade tolerance, I have seen it growing mostly in shaded sites |
| Moisture | average, moist |
| Soil & Site | average, moist |
| Flowers | 1-1.5 inch rose colored, |
| Fruit | dome shaped edible red fruit, very seedy |
| Leaves | 5 lobed, simple, maple-like leaves |
| Dimensions | 3 by 3 feet or greater, forms thickets |
| Maintenance | prune back after flowering |
| Propagation | hard seed needs to be scarified |
| Misc Facts | native |
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