Looking for a beautiful ornamental shrub that attracts songbirds and butterflies?
Purple-flowering Raspberry also provides nesting for bees. It's in the Rose family and coveted for its 2-inch, fragrant, pinkish-purple rose-like flowers that bloom most of the summer. It makes a great addition to a home garden as well as an attractive hedge.
Its fruits make a great snack and are good on cereal and in smoothies.
Purple-flowering Raspberry is thornless, and its large, velvety green, maple-like leaves turn golden in the fall. The leaves completely cover the shrub from top to bottom, providing a glorious full coat of foliage.
It spreads to form thickets and is a good choice for a natural area, slope or hedge. It is happiest in full sun with well-drained soil.
Purple-flowering Raspberry
- Latin: Rubus odoratus
- Pollinator value: Very High
- Current height: 1-3 feet
- Mature height: 3-6 feet; 6-12-feet wide
- Light: Full sun (best) to part shade
- Soil: Moist, well drained
- Bloom: Fragrant, rose-purple June-August
- Fruit: Edible red raspberries
- Foliage: Deciduous, maple-like green leaves, gold fall
- Landscape: Shade, native plant gardens
- Native range here