Known for the delicious, edible blackberry fruit. The smooth blackberry is noted to be the sweetest of all the blackberry species. The berries can be simply eaten or turned into pies, jams, jellies and used for baking applications. Flowers attract pollinators and berries provide food for mammals and birds.

Height : 3-10 feet Spread : 3-10 feet

Light : Full sun to part shade Water : Medium to moist

Soil : Sand, loam Zone : 3-8

Leaves : Pointy, slightly serrated leaves are deep green coloration. 3-5 leaves per leaflet

Stem : Smooth stems with no prickles. The difference between the common blackberry which has prickles and is the key identification between the two species

Flower : White five-petal flowers appear in late spring to early summer

Fruit : Produces deep purple, edible berries. Similar to black raspberry but the berry “globes” are fewer and much larger

Habit : Woody, deciduous shrub that forms erect canes that bend downward and re-root forming thickets