[Shrubs with Compound-ternate Leaves]

Family:

Rose Family

Habitat:

Along stream or wet ground of woods

Characteristics:

1. Salmonberry is a relative of the raspberry and blackberry. It grows 4-10 feet tall, and has woody stems.

2. Prickles near bottom stems but sparse higher up. Serrated margins on 3-5 pinnate leaflets.

3. Single 1" magenta flowers bloom in April.

4. Large round orange to red (salmon) berry in late spring.

Uses:

1. Northwest salmon spawn in streams the same time as these blooms appear.

2. Edible berry dried, cooked or raw.

Paul Slichter