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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