Indiana Native Plant of the Month - July

Purple-flowering Raspberry

July 1, 2025

With the internet being packed with useless information, we want to kick off each month with a blog post to shed some light on some of Indiana’s native plants with fun personalities.

Purple-flowering Raspbery (Rubus odoratus)

Purple Flowering Raspberry is an ornamental shrub producing beautiful purple blooms in early summer, helping our pollinators, and sizeable fruit for birds and other woodland critters. This plant, deemed threatened in Indiana, loves to sprawl out in moist, partially shaded woodland perimeters.

Identifying Purple-Flowering Raspberry

Purple Flowering Raspberry has a fewkey identifying traits, such as:

Fun Fact: Restless Roots

This shrub is rhizomatous. It willsend underground stems to sprout new plants, creating large thickets.