Scientific Name: Rubus spectabilis
Common Name: salmonberry
Family Name: Rosaceae
Origin: B.C. west of Cascades
Hardiness Zone: Zone 5: (-29 to -23 °C)
Plant Type: Shrub - deciduous
Mature Size: 1.3 - 2.0m x 1.5 - 2.0m (height x width)
Habit: Dense, Upright
Form: Irregular
Texture: Medium
Landscape Uses: Urban agriculture, Wildlife food, Woodland margin
Exposure: Full sun, Part sun/part shade
Soil or Media: Acidic, Well-drained
Leaves: Compound, Alternate, Soft flexible, Lustrous, Rugose, Trifoliate (ternate), Ovate, Double serrate, Pinnately lobed
Flowers: Flowers clustered, Pink, Apr-May
Fruit: Aggregate fruit, Drupe, Edible, Orange, Yellow, Red, Jul-Oct
Key ID Features:
Thicket forming, spindly, medium sized shrub, mostly about 2m tall; leaves with three leaflets, margins lobed, toothed, and serrated. Winter ID: buds alternate and forming zig-zag pattern on twigs, pointed; leaf scars mostly crescent shaped; weak prickles, 2-4mm long that easily break off; bark yellowish-brown, usually exfoliating.