Beginning Botany: Winter Shrub Identification
Beginning Botany: Winter Shrub Identification
Beginning Botany: Winter Shrub Identification
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Wild red raspberry (Rubus strigosus)<br />
Tools for ID<br />
<strong>Winter</strong> <strong>Shrub</strong><br />
ID Process<br />
Invasive<br />
<strong>Shrub</strong>s<br />
Native<br />
<strong>Shrub</strong>s<br />
Thanks!<br />
Practice<br />
Habitat: disturbed, open, nutrient-rich sites with moist to wet soils<br />
Twig/bud arrangement: alternate<br />
Key characteristics:<br />
•Stems ascending & arching rooted at nodes a/o shoots rooted at tips; covered in glaucous<br />
bloom & appearing red/purple with many weak, hair-like glandular bristles on new growth,<br />
small hooked prickles on older growth<br />
•Buds large, multi-scaled, & pointed, subtended by dead leaf petiole<br />
•Receptacles may persistent in short, prickly racemes at end of stems, fruit a red aggregate of<br />
drupes that detaches from the receptacle<br />
Image Source: http://www.kgnaturephotography.com/photos-wetland-<br />
plants/shrubs-vines/slides/Rubus-strigosus-~-American-red-raspberry-<br />
1.html<br />
Image Source:<br />
http://www.wnmu.edu/academic/nspages/gilaflora/rubus_ida<br />
eus.html<br />
Image Source:<br />
http://www.wildflower.org/plants/result.php?id_plant=RUIDS2
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