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Cloudberry
Rubus chamaemorus
Cloudberry is a dwarf bramble of Arctic and boreal peat bogs and tundra, spreading by rhizome into low mats. It needs a male and a female plant nearby to set its amber, sour, vitamin-C-rich fruit at all, and it can only grow in permanently wet acid peat and full sun - no shade, no dry ground, no substitute. Its native range barely reaches the northern tier of the Lower 48, and it stays that far north because it cannot take a long warm summer.
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Growing profile
- Sun
- Full Sun
- USDA zone
- USDA 2–4
- Soil
- Sand · Loam · Clay
- Moisture
- Moist · Wet
Vertical layer
Groundcover- Soil pH
- 4–5.2
- Plant type
- Perennial
- Mature height
- 12 in
- Mature spread
- 36 in
- Plant spacing
- 12–20 in
- Root type
- Rhizome
- Spread pattern
- Root
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