Rubus parviflorus

Family: Rosaceae
Common Name: Thimbleberry
Symbol: RUPA
Description: Herbaceous or shrubby perennials, to 2 m tall, stems erect, not angled and without prickles, glabrous to finely hairy, bark becoming shreddy with age, not rooting at the tips. Leaves alternate, large, simple, and palmately 3-5 lobed, broadly ovate in outline, 5-15 cm wide and long, with cordate bases, surfaces glabrous, sometimes pubescent below. Flowers white or tinged with pink, perfect, petals 5, elliptic, 15-20 mm long, flowers few in terminal corymbs 2-5 cm across. Found in the mountians at high elevations from 8,000-9,500 ft.