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above, paler and often hairy below; flowers white, y2 to % inch across, borne 

 in few-flowered clusters at the ends of the branches; berries red, the small 

 drupelets rather loosely packed on receptacle. (Syn. R. strigosus Michx., as 

 to our national parks.) 



This shrub very closely resembles the cultivated red raspberry. It is 

 commonly found on wooded slopes or in openings in the forest along with 

 whitebark raspberry with which it is often confused. The stems of western 

 red raspberry are more ascending or nearly erect, while those of the whitebark 

 raspberry are long and cane-like, curving over to touch the ground. The bark 

 of the younger stems is usually reddish and the thorns straight and slender. 

 The berries, composed of fewer and larger drupelets than in whitebark rasp- 

 berry, are of good flavor. Deer browse the leaves to a certain extent. Young 

 tender shoots were peeled and cooked for food by the Indians of some regions. 



Occurrence. — glacier, abundant all over park, 3,100 to 6,000 feel: Lake McDon- 

 ald; Avalanche Campground; St. Mary Lake; Two Medicine Valley; Cut Bank 



Fig. 45. Western red raspberry {Rubus iJacus var. aciilealissimus). 



