Blackberries are a widespread, and well-known group of several hundred species, found native throughout the temperate northern hemisphere and South America. Vigorous and growing rapidly in woods, scrub, hillsides and hedgerows, blackberry shrubs tolerate poor soils, readily colonizing wasteland, ditches and vacant lots.
Wild Blackberry Flower
It has tall, thorny, arching cane up to 9 feet tall, with palmate-compound, pear-shaped, finely toothed leaves.
In the spring, the flowers are white or pink, 5 petaled, and radially symmetrical with many bushy stamens. The fruit is available in late summer and early fall in the Northwest, can be easily recognized by practically everybody, and can be eaten raw.
Blackberries
Wild Blackberry
Wild Blackberry Flower
In the spring, the flowers are white or pink, 5 petaled, and radially symmetrical with many bushy stamens. The fruit is available in late summer and early fall in the Northwest, can be easily recognized by practically everybody, and can be eaten raw.
Wild Edible Blackberry Bush