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Leaves of Native and Weedy Shrubs and Vines

Shrubs or Trees with Berries or Small Fruit

Willamette Valley, Cascade Mts, Columbia River Gorge


Berries or fruit are white.

Creek Dogwood/ Red Osier Dogwood: Clusters of tiny, whitish berries.

Common Snowberry: Clusters of pearl-sized white berries at the tips of the stems. Poisonous.


Berries or fruit are black.

Himalyan Blackberry:

Trailing Blackberry/ Dewberry:

Evergreen Blackberry:

Salal: Clusters of bluish-black, hairy berries.

Twinberry: Pairs of shiny black berries at ends of stems.

Chokecherry: Elongated clusters of purplish black, pearl-sized berries.

Red-flowering Currant: Round, blue-black berries with glandular hairs.

Hawthorn: Round, blackish-purple berries "apples" in clusters. This plant is often a tree. The plant commly has long, sharp thorns.


Berries or fruit are red.

Salmonberry: Shiny red rasberry like fruits.

Bittersweet Nightshade: Pearl-sized berries, bright red in clusters.

Clustered Wild Rose: Shiny red rosehips, in clusters. Hips are somewhat tapered at the tips.

Little Wild Rose: Single, small, shiny red rosehip.

Nootka Rose: Single, large red rosehip, to 2 cm in diameter.

Pearhip Rose: Species found east of the Cascades. Single red rosehip.

Red Huckleberry: Pearl-sized, bright red berries (single round berry).

English Holly: Single red, pearl-sized berries.

Thimbleberry: Red rasberry-like fruit. Fruit is hollow in the middle (like a thimble).

Redelderberry: Pyramid-shaped clusters of small red berries, usually at the ends of branches.


Berries or fruit are orangish.

Salmonberry: Orangish (salmon-colored) or bright red fruits, similar to rasberries.

Mountain Ash: Clusters of round, reddish to orange berries.


Berries or fruit are blue or purplish.

Cascade Oregon Grape: Clusters of bluish-puplish, pearl-sized berries.

Tall Oregon Grape: Clusters of bluish-puplish, pearl-sized berries.

Osoberry: Clusters of peach-colored, pearl-sized fruit that turn bluish-black. Found in clusters.

Salal: Clusters of bluish-black, hairy berries.

Serviceberry: Clusters of bluish-black, berries.

Chokecherry: Elongated clusters of purplish black, pearl-sized berries.

Red-flowering Currant: Round, blue-black berries with glandular hairs.

Blue Elderberry:


Paul Slichter