The green links below add additional plants to the comparison table. Blue links lead to other Web sites.
enable glossary links

salmonberry

nagoonberry

Habit Rhizomatous, thicket-forming, woody perennial 1-3 m. tall, the stems bristly at least below, the bark brown and shredding. Strongly rhizomatous perennial with erect, herbaceous, soft-hairy, annual flowering stems 2-15 cm. tall.
Leaves

Leaves trifoliate, the leaflets ovate, nearly glabrous, doubly serrate, the terminal one 4-9 cm. long, the others smaller, often lobed.

Leaves 2-5 per stem, with conspicuous ovate-lanceolate, entire stipules;

leaf blades trifoliate, the leaflets ovate to obovate, 1.5-3 cm. long, serrate to bi-serrate.

Flowers

Flowers 1-2 on short leafy branches;

calyx pubescent, the 5 lobes ovate-lanceolate, pointed, spreading, 9-15 mm. long;

petals 5, purplish-red, obovate-elliptic, half again as long as the sepals;

stamens 75-100;

pistils numerous.

Flowers terminal, usually single, rarely 2;

calyx finely pubescent, the 5 lobes narrowly lanceolate, reflexed, 8-11 mm. long;

petals 5, erect, pink to crimson or rose, spatulate-obovate, 10-16 mm. long;

stamens 30-40;

pistils 20-30, the style enlarged upward.

Fruits

Drupelets yellow to reddish, weakly coherent, coming free from the receptacle.

Drupelets coherent, coming free of the receptacle, the fruit reddish, globose, 1 cm. broad.

Rubus spectabilis

Rubus arcticus

Flowering time March-June June-August
Habitat Lowland moist woods and swamps to middle elevations in the mountains. Montane meadows, bogs, and woodlands to alpine tundra.
Distribution
Occurring chiefly west of the Cascades crest in Washington; Alaska to California, disjunct in northern Idaho.
[WildflowerSearch map]
[BONAP county map]
Occurring east of the Cascades crest in north-central Washington; Alaska to Oregon, east to the Rocky Mountains, and east across Canada to the Great Lakes Region and the northern Atlantic Coast.
[WildflowerSearch map]
[BONAP county map]
Origin Native Native
Conservation status Not of concern Threatened in Washington (WANHP)
Sibling taxa
R. allegheniensis, R. arcticus, R. bifrons, R. idaeus, R. laciniatus, R. lasiococcus, R. leucodermis, R. nigerrimus, R. nivalis, R. parviflorus, R. pedatus, R. pensilvanicus, R. pubescens, R. ulmifolius, R. ursinus, R. vestitus
R. allegheniensis, R. bifrons, R. idaeus, R. laciniatus, R. lasiococcus, R. leucodermis, R. nigerrimus, R. nivalis, R. parviflorus, R. pedatus, R. pensilvanicus, R. pubescens, R. spectabilis, R. ulmifolius, R. ursinus, R. vestitus
Web links