Flowering Raspberry

Flowering Raspberry is a large, thornless shrub prized for its showy, rose-purple flowers that bloom for several weeks in early summer — making it one of the most ornamental of all native brambles. Unlike most Rubus species, it is grown primarily as an ornamental, though it does produce small, somewhat dry, red berries that are edible but not flavorful. The large, maple-like leaves are fragrant when crushed. It grows naturally in rocky woodland edges and ravines in the Appalachians and northeastern North America.