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Rubus parviflorus is a dense shrub up to 2.5 meters (8 feet) tall with canes no more than 1.5 centimeters (1 ⁄ 2 inch) in diameter, often growing in large clumps which spread through the plant's underground rhizome.
Rubus ursinus is a wide, mounding shrub or vine, growing to 0.61–1.52 metres (2–5 feet) high, and more than 1.8 m (6 ft) wide. [3] The prickly branches can take root if they touch soil, thus enabling the plant to spread vegetatively and form larger clonal colonies. The leaves usually have 3 leaflets but sometimes 5 or only 1, and are deciduous.
Vaccinium ovatum is an erect shrub that grows from 0.5 to 3 metres (1 + 1 ⁄ 2 to 10 ft) tall and is considered a slow-growing plant. [3] The shrub has woody stems with bright red bark. [ 1 ] The leaves are waxy, alternately arranged, and egg-shaped; [ 2 ] they are about 2 to 5 centimetres ( 3 ⁄ 4 to 2 in) long and about 1 cm wide with ...
Vaccinium / v æ k ˈ s ɪ n i ə m / [3] is a common and widespread genus of shrubs or dwarf shrubs in the heath family (Ericaceae). The fruits of many species are eaten by humans and some are of commercial importance, including the cranberry, blueberry, bilberry (whortleberry), lingonberry (cowberry), and huckleberry.
Rubus is a large and diverse genus of flowering plants in the rose family, Rosaceae, subfamily Rosoideae, commonly known as brambles. [3] [4] [5] Fruits of various species are known as raspberries, blackberries, dewberries, and bristleberries.
Native Americans use bearberry leaves with tobacco and other herbs in religious ceremonies, both as a smudge (type of incense) or smoked in a sacred pipe carrying the smoker's prayers. [1] Among the ingredients in kinnikinnick were non-poisonous sumac leaves, [ 8 ] and the inner bark of certain bushes such as red osier dogwood (silky cornell ...
[2] [3] Rubus pensilvanicus is a prickly shrub up to 3 meters (10 feet) tall. The canes are green at first but then turn dark red, usually ridged, with copious straight prickles. The leaves are palmately compound, usually bearing 5 or 7 leaflets. The flowers are white with large petals, borne in mid-spring.
The flowers are produced in racemes 4–11 cm (1 + 1 ⁄ 2 – 4 + 1 ⁄ 4 in) long in late spring (well after leaf emergence), eventually growing up to 15 cm. [4] They are 8.5–12.7 millimetres (3 ⁄ 8 – 1 ⁄ 2 in) across. [7] [8] The fruits are about 6–14 mm (1 ⁄ 4 – 1 ⁄ 2 in) in diameter, range in color from bright red to black ...