Rubus parviflorusNutt.

thimbleberry

WFO wfo-0001016292 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Rubus parviflorus, photographed by John G. Phillips
fig. a John G. Phillips, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-13 / obs. 205934835
Rubus parviflorus, photographed by Erin Springinotic
fig. b Erin Springinotic, CC0 1.0 / obs. 205579549
Rubus parviflorus, photographed by Casey H. Richart
fig. c Casey H. Richart, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205798851
Rubus parviflorus, photographed by Randal
fig. d Randal, CC0 1.0 / obs. 205168898
Rubus parviflorus, photographed by David Dyck
fig. e David Dyck, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205591497
Rubus parviflorus, photographed by Loopy30
fig. f Loopy30, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 204285492
Rubus parviflorus, photographed by Randal
fig. g Randal, CC0 1.0 / obs. 204289751
Rubus parviflorus, photographed by Erin Springinotic
fig. h Erin Springinotic, CC0 1.0 / obs. 203979985

Every figure is a research-grade observation under CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA, rehosted with the photographer’s name, the licence and the observation it came from. Photographs under a NonCommercial licence are excluded from this site and are never stored, which costs us a great many pictures and is not negotiable.

Flowering n = 4,007 observations

Peak flowering in Jun, from 4,007 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 56 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 nutkana Greene
  • Bossekia parviflora (Rydb.) Greene
  • Rubacer parviflorum Rydb.
  • Rubacer tomentosum Rydb.
  • Rubacer velutinum (W.H.Brewer) A.Heller
  • Rubus lacer Kuntze
  • Rubus natkanus G.Don
  • Rubus nutkanus Moc. ex Ser.
  • Rubus nutkanus f. lacerus Kuntze
  • Rubus nutkanus var. bifarius (Fernald) Fernald
  • Rubus nutkanus var. heteradenius (Fernald) Fernald
  • Rubus nutkanus var. hypomalacus (Fernald) Fernald
  • Rubus nutkanus var. nuttallii Torr. & A.Gray
  • Rubus nutkanus var. parviflorus (Rydb.) Focke
  • Rubus nutkanus var. parviflorus (Nutt.) Focke
  • Rubus nutkanus var. parvifolius A.Gray
  • Rubus nutkanus var. pubescens C.Presl
  • Rubus nutkanus var. scopulorum Greene ex Focke
  • Rubus nutkanus var. velutinus W.H.Brewer
  • Rubus odoratus var. nutkanus (Moc. ex Ser.) Kuntze
  • Rubus parviflorus f. acephalus Fassett
  • Rubus parviflorus f. adenius Fassett
  • Rubus parviflorus f. allocalyx Fassett
  • Rubus parviflorus f. bifarius (Fernald) Fassett

and 32 more.

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.