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salmonberry

red raspberry

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

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
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. arcticus, R. bifrons, 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
Subordinate taxa
R. idaeus ssp. idaeus, R. idaeus ssp. strigosus
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