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Cloudberry

Cloudberry

Rubus chamaemorus

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How common: Common

Cloudberry is a low, northern bog plant known for its golden-orange berries. It grows in wet, acidic peatlands across the colder parts of the Northern Hemisphere, often in open bogs and fens.

Did you know?

  • Plants are either male or female, so only female plants make berries.
  • The berry turns from red to golden orange as it ripens.

About the species

Identification

Low perennial, 10–25 cm tall, spreading by creeping underground stems. Each upright stem usually has two long-stalked, kidney-shaped, wrinkled leaves with 5–7 shallow rounded lobes and toothed edges. A single white flower about 2–3 cm across sits at the top. Plants are male or female; only females bear fruit. The berry is made of many soft beads, first red, then golden orange and soft when ripe in late summer. Unlike raspberries, it has one flower per stem and grows on open bogs. Flowers in Finland in June.

Plant group

Herbaceous plants

Habitat

mire

Flowering

Jun

About the habitat

Wet, acidic peatlands such as bogs and fens, from cool boreal forests to tundra. Often forms patches in open, sunny parts of peatlands. Common throughout the country.

Sources

Photo: Ireen Trummer, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rabamurakad 2014.jpg

Text: Pinkka: Yläkoulun Pinkka - Suot ja tunturit, CC BY 4.0 https://laji.fi/taxon/MX.38797

Text: Pinkka: BIO-503 Suomen kasvisto ja kasvillisuus - Metsät: kuivahkot kankaat, CC BY 4.0 https://laji.fi/taxon/MX.38797

Text: Pinkka: Kasvitieteen retkeily Ahvenanmaalle - Nåtö ja Västerskog, CC BY 4.0 https://laji.fi/taxon/MX.38797

Text: Pinkka: BIO-516 Hyötykasvit - Kotimaan villivihanneksia ja marjoja, CC BY 4.0 https://laji.fi/taxon/MX.38797

Text: Wikipedia (Finnish), CC BY-SA 4.0 https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lakka_(kasvi)

See also