I just discovered this small, herbaceous raspberry in the bog area of the Thomas Darling Preserve in Blakeslee in northeast Pennsylvania. It is a pretty little plant with shiny handsome leaves and tiny usually white flowers. The leaves are alternate, compound with three leaflets up to 3 inches long by 2 inches wide. The tiny usually white or light pink stalked flowers are single or 2 or 3 together to 1/2 inch across, with usually 5 petals, sometimes 6 or 7, paddle-shaped and often curly with white stamens in the middle. The fruit is a small red to dark red berry about 1/4 to 1/2 inch across and is tasty to eat. The species is native to some spots in the western US of northeast Washington to northwest Montana, central Colorado, northeast Wyoming-southeast Montana-western South Dakota; then native from northcentral North Dakota & most of Minnesota, all of Wisconsin & Michigan, east Iowa through northern Indiana & Ohio, most of Pennsylvania, northern New Jersey, New York & New England, plus southeast Canada, and I think way up north into Canada.

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