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Home > ALL GROUNDCOVERS > RUBUS calycinoides (Creeping Raspberry)

Rubus calycinoides
{24 Pots - 3 1/2 in.}

AKA Rubus pentalobus, Creeping Raspberry, Emerald Carpet, Creeping Bramble, Creeping Rubus, Crinkle-leaf Creeper

Creeping Raspberry is a unique, densely branched trailing groundcover which is hardy and attractive in shady settings as well as sunny ones. An excellent moderate- to fast-spreading low maintenance groundcover for both urban and rural settings.

Good for erosion control, often used as a soil binder on moderate to large sloping areas. Well suited to roadside plantings and as a large scale facing for tree and shrub borders. It is not just for ditches or slopes: Creeping Raspberry looks particularly nice when grown in a raised bed or planter, rambling over rocks, and cascading over a wall or out of containers.

The dense 3/4" to 1 1/2" semi-evergreen to evergeeen heart-shaped leaves have deep veins that make them appear puckered. During spring and summer, the leaves are shiny, dark green above and gray-green below. They turn burgundy in fall and winter.

1/2" white flowers in mid-summer are followed by tiny amber-colored fruit that have good flavor. One of the plants that produce fruit that attract birds.

Most landscapes have difficult sites, such as hot, dry, erodible slopes or ditches where soil moisture fluctuates from very wet to very dry. Not many plants tolerate these conditions, but Creeping Raspberry is one that will. In fact, it not only survives, it thrives under harsh growing conditions.

Creeping Raspberry creeps along the ground by forming runners which root at their nodes and establish new colonies. Although it is aggressive, Creeping Raspberry is not invasive. It doesn't climb trees or smother nearby shrubs, and it can readily be controlled with mechanical edging.

Once established it displays reasonable drought tolerance (requiring only an occasional watering in hot, dry weather). Adapts to most well-drained soils, deer tend to avoid. Mature height 2" - 4", spacing 18" - 24", spreads over three feet across.

If the foliage looks a little rough after winter, give it a light trimming with a lawn mower in early spring to encourage a new growth flush in spring. Creeping Raspberry can be propagated by separating a rooted runner from the mother plant.

Full sun Part sun

Zones: 6-10

$102.48 for 1 pack of 24 plants ($4.27 per plant)
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