Skyline Drive, Shenandoah National Park (Northern District), VA
Skyline Drive, Shenandoah National Park (Northern District), VA
Skyline Drive, Shenandoah National Park (Northern District), VA
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Family: Rosaceae (Rose family)
Mid-Atlantic bloom time:
June - August
Mid-Atlantic fruit ripe:
July - October
Flowering Raspberry produces cane-like stems that grow from 1–2 meters. Its leaves are palmate, 5-lobed, maple-like, and medium green. Its fragrant flowers are deep pink to rose-purple, and 3–5 cm in diameter.
Flowering Raspberry differs from other Rubus species by its simple leaves and hairy, but virtually no prickles. Also, DNA has shown that it could be potentially placed in a separate genus Rubacer1,2, although this is not universally accepted yet.
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15 June 2012
Skyline Drive, Shenandoah National Park (Northern District), VA
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15 June 2012
Skyline Drive, Shenandoah National Park (Northern District), VA
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15 June 2012
Skyline Drive, Shenandoah National Park (Northern District), VA
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References
1:
K.A. Carter, A. Liston, N.V. Bassil, L.A. Alice, J.M. Bushakra, B.L. Sutherland, T.C. Mockler, D.W. Bryant, K.E. Hummer;
"Target Capture Sequencing Unravels Rubus Evolution",
Frontiers in Plant Science, vol. 10, 20 December 2019;
>> Frontiers in Plant Science, vol. 10.
2:
T.R. Huang, J.H. Chen, K.E. Hummer, L.A. Alice, W.H. Wang, Y. He, S.X. Yu, M.
F. Yang, T.Y. Chai, X.Y. Zhu, L.Q. Ma, H. Wang;
"Phylogeny of Rubus (Rosaceae): integrating molecular and morphological evidence into an infrageneric revision",
Taxon 72: 278–306, 13 March 2023;
>> abstract at Wiley.com [full paper behind paywall].