Creeping Bramble, Korean Raspberry                 RUB-us TRI-color

• Semi-evergreen ground cover, shrub, dense, creeping low mat, long arching stems.  Shoots without prickles but have dense bristles.  Leaves alternate, simple, about 10 × 6 cm apex pointed, base heart-shaped, margin irregularly serrate, dark green above, white pubescent below and bristly on veins; petiole to 4 cm, bristly.  Flowers white, to 2.5 cm wide, solitary or few-flowered clusters.   Fruit bright red, edible.
• Part shade, a good ground cover for shady locations.
• Hardy to USDA Zone 6   Native to western China; introduced to the western world by Ernest Wilson in 1908.
• Federal Way, Washington: Rhododendron Species and Botanic Garden