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This fast-growing shrub may become unruly and looks best at the edge of a pond, drainage swale, rain garden, or buffer area. It is often used as a sprawling hedge for naturalistic gardens . When ...
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.
The marionberry plant is a vigorously growing trailing vine, with some canes up to 20 feet (6.1 m) long. [ 1 ] [ 3 ] The vines have many large spines, and the fruiting laterals are long and strong, producing many berries. [ 6 ]
The fruit are produced in 6–10 cm (2 + 1 ⁄ 4 –4 in) diameter clusters of purple-black berries, each berry is 1–1.5 cm (1 ⁄ 3 – 2 ⁄ 3 in) in diameter. The seed inside the berry resembles a crescent moon, and is responsible for the common name. The fruit is ripe between September and October, the same general time frame in which ...
Green’s mountain ash (S. scopulina) is native to the mountains from Alaska to California, and east to the Rocky Mountains and Northern Great Plains. It grows as a multi-stemmed shrub that is ...
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The berries and leaves often persist into late winter. Smilax rotundifolia is a very important food plant in the winter while there are more limited food choices. Examples of wildlife that will eat the berries and leaves in the late winter and early spring are Northern Cardinals, white throated sparrows, white tailed deer, and rabbits. [10]
The berries are an important traditional food resource for the Yup'ik. Due to its high vitamin C content, [ 2 ] the berry is valued both by Nordic seafarers and Northern indigenous peoples . Its polyphenol content, including flavonoid compounds such as ellagic acid , appears to naturally preserve food preparations of the berries. [ 2 ]