Also called a bramble, as are its sister-species in
🍇︎ blackberry/raspberry genus Rubus,
and its cousin-species in sister-genus
🌹︎ rose genus Rosa
— all with many prickles
along their stems.
Despite its common name, botanically, its fruit is not a berry, but a "drupe".
The fruit color may be yellow, orange, or red.
Part of
🍇︎ blackberry/raspberry genus Rubus
in
🌹︎ rose family Rosaceae
in
🍎︎ apple / 🍇︎ berry / buckthorn / elm / hemp / 🌹︎ rose order Rosales.
Native to 🇨🇦 Canada and 🇺🇸 USA's Pacific Northwest, in damp areas, along the coast from Alaska's Aleutian Islands and South, to British Columbia, Washington, Oregon and California, but also extending up river valleys, into Idaho.
🗺 Map by county (🇺🇸 USA-48)
(color key),
🗺 map (🇨🇦 Canada and 🇺🇸 USA).
And 🇯🇵 Japan and West Virginia, according to the USFS links ↓ below.
Uses by native peoples
(Ethnobotany database)