Salmonberry - rubus spectabilis

Appearance

• Leaves: three or five oval leaflets. Pointed tips, and they are toothed around edges.
• Flowers: magenta, small, and their petals are hot pink.
• Fruit: raspberry-like clusters of orange, yellow, or purplish red.
• They can be up to 3-10 feet tall.

Habitat

• Salmonberries grow in moist woods on the under story part.
• Also wet slopes.
• Wooded stream banks

Growth Habit

• The salmonberry is a perennial plant.
• The salmon berry changes by blooming from April to June
• Their fruits ripen in late July.
• The salmon berry dies down in the winter, and it looks like a bunch of sticks

Natural History

• The fruits can be eaten by animals.
• Salmon berry leaves are browsed by deer and rabbits.
• The Makah dried and peeled branches for pipe stems.
• Quileute chewed the leaves and spit them on burns, and in the winter they used the bark instead.