Rubus spectabilis

Salmonberry

Family: Rosaceae · Type: shrub · Native

Salmonberry is a California native shrub found in northern coastal regions, northwestern Klamath Ranges, northern outer North Coast Ranges, northern central Coast Ranges, and western San Francisco Bay Area in moist woodland edges and streambanks at elevations generally below 500 meters. Flowering from March to June, this plant produces magenta flowers 15 to 22 millimeters long with elliptic to narrow-obovate petals. Growing 2 to 4 meters tall with few stout, slender, straight prickles, it forms an erect shrub with stems 3 to 15 millimeters in diameter. Its leaves are typically compound with three leaflets, the terminal leaflet widely ovate, coarse-double-toothed, and having an acute to acuminate tip. The fruit develops as a raspberry-type cluster ranging from yellow to orange to red.

Habitat: Moist areas, especially edges of woodland, streambanks

Bloom period: Mar-Jun

Elevation: generally < 500 m

Bioregions: NCo, nw KR, n NCoRO, n CCo, w SnFrB

California counties: Del Norte, Humboldt, Mendocino, Sonoma, Marin, San Mateo, Santa Cruz, San Francisco, Sierra

Data from The California Species Project — 14,000+ California species with verified data from CNPS, CDFW, USFWS, Jepson eFlora, Cal-IPC, and more.