Rubus odoratusL.

purple-flowered raspberry

WFO wfo-0001017570 Accepted WFO 2026-06 7 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–g

Rubus odoratus, photographed by Michelle Norcéide
fig. a Michelle Norcéide, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-13 / obs. 205913048
Rubus odoratus, photographed by Jens Ullenius
fig. b Jens Ullenius, CC0 1.0 / obs. 205996808
Rubus odoratus, photographed by Michelle Norcéide
fig. c Michelle Norcéide, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205898113
Rubus odoratus, photographed by Clay Gibbons
fig. d Clay Gibbons, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 202556661
Rubus odoratus, photographed by Michelle Norcéide
fig. e Michelle Norcéide, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205900120
Rubus odoratus, photographed by Tom Scavo
fig. f Tom Scavo, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 203830120
Rubus odoratus, photographed by Brian Finzel
fig. g Brian Finzel, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 202608768

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Flowering n = 4,361 observations

Peak flowering in Jul, from 4,361 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 24 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Bossekia odorata (L.) Greene
  • Rubacer columbianum (Millsp.) Rydb.
  • Rubacer odoratum (L.) Rydb.
  • Rubus columbianus (Millsp.) Rydb.
  • Rubus glandulifolius Salisb.
  • Rubus grandifolius Salisb.
  • Rubus odoratus f. albiflorus House
  • Rubus odoratus f. albus Zabel ex C.K.Schneid.
  • Rubus odoratus f. albus Zabel
  • Rubus odoratus f. bifarius Fassett
  • Rubus odoratus f. glabrifolius Fassett
  • Rubus odoratus f. heteradenius Fassett
  • Rubus odoratus f. hypomalacus Fassett
  • Rubus odoratus f. paraheteradenius Fassett
  • Rubus odoratus f. parahypomalacus Fassett
  • Rubus odoratus f. scopulotum Fassett
  • Rubus odoratus var. albidus L.H.Bailey
  • Rubus odoratus var. californicus (Kuntze) Kuntze
  • Rubus odoratus var. columbianus Millsp.
  • Rubus odoratus var. malachophyllus Fernald
  • Rubus odoratus var. mexicanus (Kuntze) Kuntze
  • Rubus odoratus var. normalis Kuntze
  • Rubus odoratus var. odoratus
  • Rubus quinquelobus Stokes

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.