Green Nature

Thimbleberry

picture of a thimbleberry flower


Thimbleberry (Rubus parviflorus) is one of a couple hundred different blackberry plants that grow in the United States.

It is also one of many berry plants in the rose family, and it is a common medium-sized shrub that grows on hillsides throughout the Western United States.

The flowers are white and the edible fruit is pink to red.

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