Flowering Raspberry vs Water Arum - TreeTime.ca

Flowering Raspberry vs Water Arum

Rubus odoratus

Calla palustris

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Flowering Raspberry
Water Arum

The Flowering Raspberry is an ornamental shrubby plant that blooms with fragrant light purple flowers throughout the summer and has a large, decorative foliage of bright green leaves. The flowers resemble that of a wildrose, and the foliage turns a bright yellow in the fall. This cultivar produces small red raspberries, similar to that of a thimbleberry, but the fruit is mostly tasteless.

The Flowering Raspberry, also known as Virginia Raspberry or Purple-Flowered Raspberry, makes a great hedge plant and is a good choice for attracting birds to your yard.

Water Arum is a native perennial wetland plant known for its showy white oval sheaths (spathe) that surround a yellow-green, cylindrical flower spike (spadix). It has large, oblong, heart-shaped leaves on stems that rise above the water from shallow, spreading rhizomes. The blossoms are followed in late summer by tiny, pear-shaped fruits that ripen to bright red, adding ornamental interest to wet habitats.

Water Arum provides food for birds and small mammals that eat its berries, and its flowers attract pollinators. It can tolerate cold climates and forms colonies in shallow water and saturated soils. It is well-suited for ecological restoration, riparian planting, naturalisation, and habitat projects in wet and shaded environments.

Flowering Raspberry Quick Facts

Water Arum Quick Facts

Zone: 3a
Zone: 1b
Height: 1.8 m (6 ft)
Height: 0.2 m (0.8 ft)
Spread: 4 m (12 ft)
Spread: 0.2 m (0.8 ft)
Light: any
Light: shade, partial shade
Moisture: normal
Moisture: wet
Growth rate: fast
Growth rate: medium
Life span: medium
Life span: short
Growth form: colony-forming
Spreading: rhizomes - medium, seeds - low
Suckering: high


Toxicity: toxic if ingested
Bark: thornless orange
Flowers: purple
Flowers: white sheath around and yellow spike
Bloom time: spring to summer
Berries: red to purple, seedy
Berries: red, in clusters
Firmness: firm
Flavor: tasteless
Hybrid: no
Hybrid: no
Catkins: no
Catkins: no


Native to: ON, QC, NS
Native to: AB, BC, SK, MB, ON, QC, NS, NB, NL, YT, NT, PE
Other Names: purple-flowered raspberry, virginia raspberry
Other Names: bog arum, swamp lily, wild calla, wild dragon