| Rubus spectabilis Pursh | |||
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| Family | Rosaceae — APG family: Rosaceae | ||
| Common name | salmonberry | ||
| Description | Stems upright, biennial, from branching rhizome, forming thickets, strongly bristly, especially below, with acicular prickles; leaves mostly 3-foliate; lateral leaflets obliquely ovate, acuminate, lobulate-serrate; flowers solitary on short, leafy shoots; sepals pubescent, ovate; petals reddish-purple, elliptical longer than sepals; fruit ovoid, raspberry-like, red or yellow when ripe, glabrous, palatable. | ||
| Ecology | Moist woods, in the mountains up into lower alpine region, where it forms ex- tensive, almost impenetrable thickets. Described from the banks of the Columbia River and the northwest coast of North America. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Broken line on circumpolar map indicates range of subsp. vérnus Focke. |
This is a digital representation of Eric Hultén’s ‘Flora of Alaska and Neighboring Territories: A Manual of the Vascular Plants’, which was published by Stanford University Press in 1968. The book was digitized by C. Webb (at UAMN) as part of the Flora of Alaska project, with funding by the US NSF (Grant 1759964 to Ickert-Bond & Webb), and with permission of Stanford University Press. Data and images © 1968 Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Jr. Univ. Usage licence: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0. NB: You may find OCR errors; please refer to the hard-copy if in doubt.