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Rosaceae
Stone bramble
Rubus saxatilis
Also known as Rubus saxatilis, Stone raspberry, Rock bramble, Rubus saxatilis f. multiloba
Native Plants · Bramble · Groundcover · Woodland · Shade · Wildflower · Berry · Native · Low-Growing · Stolon · Rosaceae
Stone bramble is a low-growing woodland groundcover that prefers cool, shaded conditions with consistently moist soil. It spreads gradually via stolons and requires very little maintenance once established. It is best suited to naturalistic or woodland garden settings rather than formal beds.
Growing conditions
The details behind the basics
- Daily light
- 4 hours
- Watering
- Water moderately, keeping soil consistently moist but not waterlogged · Every 7-10 days
- Maintenance
- Low
- Soil
- loam
- Soil pH
- 7–7.5
- Temperature
- -20°F to 85°F
- Cycle
- Perennial
- Propagation
- Seed
Hardiness
USDA 5a-9b
Form & growth
Mature size and habit
- Mature height
- 12 in – 3 ft
- Spread
- 2 ft
- Spacing
- 18 in apart
- Growth rate
- Moderate
- Root depth
- Medium
- Flowers
- No
- Foliage
- Medium
Ecology & origin
Where it belongs and what it brings
- Native to
- Albania, Altay, Amur, Austria, Baltic States, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Central European Rus, China North-Central, China Southeast, Chita, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, East European Russia, Finland, France, FøRoyar, Germany, Great Britain
- Attracts
- Bees, Butterflies, Birds
Sources: trefle, usda
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