Blackcap Raspberry
Rubus leucodermis
The native black raspberry, with arching blue-white canes and sweet, dusky purple-black fruit prized for fresh eating and jam. A vigorous, thorny thicket-former of clearings and edges.
- Family
- Rosaceae
- Type
- shrub
- Lifespan
- perennial
- Height
- 1–1 ft
- Spacing
- 4–8 ft apart
- Light
- sun, part shade, shade
- Soil moisture
- moist, dry
- Soil pH
- acidic, neutral
- Bloom
- April, May
- Bloom colors
- white, pink
- Wildlife value
- pollinators, songbirds, mammals
- Caterpillar hosts
- ~163 butterfly & moth species
- Landscape uses
- specimen, hedge or screen, foundation, erosion control
- Native states
- AZ, CA, ID, MT, NV, OR, UT, WA
Related native plants
More Rubus species
- Thimbleberry (Rubus parviflorus)
- Salmonberry (Rubus spectabilis)
- Purple-flowering Raspberry (Rubus odoratus)
- American Red Raspberry (Rubus idaeus)