Burke: Rubus spectabilis vs. Rubus pedatus

	Rubus spectabilis	Rubus pedatus
	salmonberry	strawberry bramble, strawberry-leaf raspberry
Habit	Rhizomatous, thicket-forming, woody perennial 1-3 m. tall, the stems bristly at least below, the bark brown and shredding.	Mat-forming, unarmed perennial, the stems herbaceous, stolonous, rooting at the nodes; flowering stems erect, short, up to 2 cm. tall, with 1-3 leaves.
Leaves	Leaves trifoliate, the leaflets ovate, nearly glabrous, doubly serrate, the terminal one 4-9 cm. long, the others smaller, often lobed.	Leaves with prominent, brownish, entire stipules, the blades long-petiolate, palmately divided into 5 leaflets; leaflets obovate, doubly serrate, 1-3 cm. long.
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 solitary on filiform peduncles 2-6 cm. long; calyx nearly glabrous, the 5 lobes narrowly oblong-lanceolate, 5-11 mm. long, toothed near the tip; petals 5, white, oblong, equaling the sepals; stamens numerous; pistils 3-6, glabrous.
Fruits	Drupelets yellow to reddish, weakly coherent, coming free from the receptacle.	Drupelets red, somewhat coherent; seeds 4 mm. long.

	Rubus spectabilis	Rubus pedatus
Flowering time	March-June	May-July
Habitat	Lowland moist woods and swamps to middle elevations in the mountains.	Moist areas, open banks to dense forests, near sea level to timberline
Distribution	Occurring chiefly west of the Cascades crest in Washington; Alaska to California, disjunct in northern Idaho. [WildflowerSearch map] [BONAP county map]	Occurring on both sides of the Cascades crest in Washington; Alaska to Oregon, east to Alberta, Idaho, and Montana. [WildflowerSearch map] [BONAP county map]
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. idaeus, R. laciniatus, R. lasiococcus, R. leucodermis, R. nigerrimus, R. nivalis, R. parviflorus, R. pensilvanicus, R. pubescens, R. spectabilis, R. ulmifolius, R. ursinus, R. vestitus
Web links	Local floras: BC, CA, OR, WA Local Web sites: CalFlora, CalPhotos, Flora NW, PNW Herbaria, Turner Photog. WildflowerSearch iNaturalist (observations) USDA Plants Database LBJ Wildflower Center SEINet Plants of the World Online Encyclopedia of Life Wikipedia Google Image Search	Local floras: BC, OR, WA Local Web sites: Flora NW, PNW Herbaria, Turner Photog. WildflowerSearch iNaturalist (observations) USDA Plants Database LBJ Wildflower Center SEINet Plants of the World Online Encyclopedia of Life Wikipedia Google Image Search

Rubus spectabilis

Rubus pedatus

salmonberry

strawberry bramble, strawberry-leaf raspberry

Habit

Rhizomatous, thicket-forming, woody perennial 1-3 m. tall, the stems bristly at least below, the bark brown and shredding.

Mat-forming, unarmed perennial, the stems herbaceous, stolonous, rooting at the nodes; flowering stems erect, short, up to 2 cm. tall, with 1-3 leaves.

Leaves

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

Leaves with prominent, brownish, entire stipules, the blades long-petiolate, palmately divided into 5 leaflets;

leaflets obovate, doubly serrate, 1-3 cm. long.

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 solitary on filiform peduncles 2-6 cm. long;

calyx nearly glabrous, the 5 lobes narrowly oblong-lanceolate, 5-11 mm. long, toothed near the tip;