Silver Buffaloberry is a thorny native shrub of the Great Plains and Rocky Mountain foothills with distinctive silver-scaled leaves and abundant red-orange berries. The berries are tart and astringent when raw but were an important food source for plains indigenous peoples and are still harvested for jelly. Grizzly bears, black bears, and many birds rely on the berries.
Best time to see a Silver Buffaloberry
The best time to see a Silver Buffaloberry is May–August, when about 63% of U.S. sightings happen, based on 1,275 research-grade iNaturalist observations.
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