BOTANICAL AND ECOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS
SPECIES: Rubus chamaemorus | Cloudberry 



GENERAL BOTANICAL CHARACTERISTICS : 
Cloudberry is a herbacous perennial forb 4 to 12 inches (10-30 cm) high.
It is prostrate to erect in form with slender, creeping, woody rhizomes.
The leaves are 1 to 3 inches (2-8 cm) long.  The aggregate fruit is
composed of 6 to 18 large drupelets [16,22,32].


RAUNKIAER LIFE FORM : 
   Hemicryptophyte
   Geophyte


REGENERATION PROCESSES : 
Cloudberry reproduces primarily vegetatively from rhizomes.  It also
reproduces by seed [5,15,17].


SITE CHARACTERISTICS : 
Cloudberry grows on a broad range of sites from dry to wet but is most
common on wetter sites.  It reaches its greatest cover on raised bogs,
meadows, and freshwater marshes [14,24,27].


SUCCESSIONAL STATUS : 
Faculative Seral Species

Cloudberry is shade tolerant.  In the bog flats of southwestern Alaska,
it was one of the first species to come in after dense sphagnum cover
was established [8].  Cloudberry is an important component in the
understory of mid- to late-seral northern woodlands [24,31,38].


SEASONAL DEVELOPMENT : 
In the southern parts of its range cloudberry flowers in June and July
and the berries ripen in late August and early September [37].

Related categories for Species: Rubus chamaemorus | Cloudberry