''Rubus pedatus'' is an Asian and North American species of

raspberry The raspberry is the edible fruit of a multitude of plant species in the genus ''Rubus'' of the rose family, most of which are in the subgenus '' Idaeobatus''. The name also applies to these plants themselves. Raspberries are perennial with w ...

known under the common names five-leaved bramble, strawberryleaf raspberry and creeping raspberry. ''Rubus pedatus'' is a low shrub or herb with thorn-less creeping stems. The leaves are alternate, deciduous, divided into 5 leaflets (hence the name) each coarsely toothed. The flowers are white, across, and occur singly on slender stalks. The fruits are bright red, and consist of small clusters of drupelets, sometimes as few as one

drupe In botany, a drupe (or stone fruit) is an indehiscent fruit in which an outer fleshy part (exocarp, or skin, and mesocarp, or flesh) surrounds a single shell (the ''pit'', ''stone'', or '' pyrena'') of hardened endocarp with a seed (''kernel'') ...

let per fruit. The fruits are edible.Flora of North America, ''Rubus pedatus'' Smith, 1791. Strawberryleaf raspberry
/ref> ''Rubus pedatus'' is found in moist mossy forests, glades, stream banks and bog forests on the Pacific coasts of eastern Russia, Oregon, Washington, British Columbia and Alaska, inland to Yukon, Alberta, and Montana.Turner Photographics, ''Rubus pedatus'' - Wildflowers of the Pacific Northwest
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photo of herbarium specimen at Missouri Botanical Garden, collected 1788 somewhere on the northern Pacific coast of North America
* * Berries pedatus Flora of Russia Plants described in 1791 Flora of North America {{Rubus-stub