3-6' × 6-12' Also called False Raspberry, Ornamental Raspberry or Purple-flowering Raspberry.
Relative of the cultivated raspberry, grown for its fragrant rosy-purple flowers and nutritious fruit. Long-blooming, from June to August, attracting pollinators. An excellent addition to wildlife hedges. Thornless canes sucker and spread into a dense colony. Berries contain phytonutrients ellagic acid and resveratrol, regenerative and beneficial to health. New leaves can be made into a medicinal tea much like its fruiting cousin, the red raspberry. Lobed palmate leaves fade to pale yellow in the fall.
Tolerates a range of conditions, average to acidic soil, sun or shade. Low maintenance and easy to grow. Native to eastern North America. Z4.
(1–3' bare-root plants)
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Maine Grown.