Purple Flowering Rasberry
Rubus odoratus
43.0904, -79.0861
Field Notes
Description:
It is a shrub growing to 3 m tall, with (unlike many other species in the genus) perennial, not biennial stems. Also, unlike most other related species this plant does not have thorns. The leaves are palmately lobed with five (rarely three or seven) lobes, up to 25 cm long and broad, superficially resembling maple leaves. The flowers are 3–5 cm diameter, with five purple petals; they are produced from early spring to early fall.
Habitat:
native to eastern North America, from Nova Scotia west to Ontario, and south to Georgia and Alabama.
Notes:
I spotted this growing along the trail in Fireman's Park on the edge of the city.
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Rubus odoratus
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PublishedJune 12, 2011
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