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Thimbleberry

Rubus parviflorus

Blooms later

Perhaps requires insects to pollinate --

Useful shrub--- while berries can be bland to ‘excellent’ – provides good ground cover and even eaten as vegetable early in season – see Menzies newsletter where 2 pages given to singing thimbleberries praises

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Can’t tell from these images if the anthers mature before the pistils or at same time

Here the berry is beginning grow

	Leaf is distinctive
	Maple leaf--- the Latin name for the species (parviflorus) almost humorous as the flower is huge in our area altelast

Last of the showy white flowers to bloom locally

Reason it is such a good ground cover is that it has lots of rhizomatous roots that quickly spread it --- this image left could well be all the same individual

Good for wild life too --- from birds to bears

Created by LG on MAY/22/2005

Last updated on Sunday, May 22, 2005

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Blooms later