Rubus spectabilis |
Rubus idaeus |
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salmonberry |
red raspberry |
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Habit | Rhizomatous, thicket-forming, woody perennial 1-3 m. tall, the stems bristly at least below, the bark brown and shredding. | Strong perennial 1-2 m. tall, more or less bristly and prickly, otherwise glabrous or pubescent, the bark yellow to cinnamon-brown, peeling. |
Leaves | Leaves trifoliate, the leaflets ovate, nearly glabrous, doubly serrate, the terminal one 4-9 cm. long, the others smaller, often lobed. |
Leaves alternate, usually trifoliate, the leaflets ovate-oblong to broadly lanceolate, 4-10 cm. long, irregularly biserrate, green and glabrous on the upper surface, usually gray-woolly beneath. |
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 several, 1-4 per axil, forming a leafy, racemose inflorescence; calyx somewhat woolly to bristly-glandular, the 5 lobes reflexed, lanceolate, 4-8 mm. long; petals 5, white, ascending, narrowly oblong, 4-6 mm. long; stamens 75-100, glabrous; pistils numerous, styles slender |
Fruits | Drupelets yellow to reddish, weakly coherent, coming free from the receptacle. |
Drupelets weakly coherent to form a red raspberry, finely short-woolly. |
Rubus spectabilis |
Rubus idaeus |
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Flowering time | March-June | May-July |
Habitat | Lowland moist woods and swamps to middle elevations in the mountains. | Wet or dry woodland to open and often rocky mountain slopes. |
Distribution | Occurring chiefly west of the Cascades crest in Washington; Alaska to California, disjunct in northern Idaho.
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Occurring chiefly east of the Cascades crest in Washington; Alaska to California, east across most of North America to the Atlantic Coast.
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Origin | Native | Native |
Conservation status | Not of concern | Not of concern |
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