Hello everyone,

Besides the obvious berries like blueberries, strawberries, raspberries and blackberries, what are some other berries that grow in the US, and are used or recognized by most people in the US?

Thank you!

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  2. Cranberries

    We produced 381,018 tons last year. Canada comes in a #2 with 176,036 tons.

  12. Blueberries, raspberries, strawberries (which aren’t berries), blackberries, cranberries (pretty popular in the US and Canada but less so worldwide).

    As far as the more rare or regional ones: elderberries, lingonberries, marionberries, huckleberries, mulberries, and there’s a few more but they are rare and not usually cultivated.

  14. Strawberries are not actually berries but bananas, avocados, pumpkin, tomato, watermelon, and kiwi are and can be found all over the United States.

  16. Recognized by most people in the US?

    Whatever the grocery store is selling.

    People pick berries but it’s not remarkably common. We grow a lot of berries, but you typically just buy these at the store.

    The only berries that I’ve ever picked in the wild are blackberries and raspberries.

  20. Mulberry trees used to grow in my backyard when I was a kid and I would eat them straight off the tree. They’re really very delicious but I’ve never seen them in stores, just the wild.

  21. cranberries are a *huge* one. There’s a reason that cranberry sauce is part of a traditional thanksgiving dinner.

  23. Huckleberries are really common the in western Montana, Northern Idaho, certain parts of the pacific northwest.

    You can go walk into the woods and pick a bucket full in late summer

  24. Muscadines. Wish I could find some where I am now, it’s been years but I love them

  27. I have like 12 mulberry trees in my back yard so I’m going to go with that. I’m afraid to eat them now because I picked up campylobacter a couple years ago because I would eat them as I mowed and never cleaned them.

  29. Mulberries are grown on tree like bushes or they could be trees and the berries stain everything in it’s vicinity including the soles of your shoes if you step on one. They’re tasty though

  30. Wild strawberries, bramble berries, thimble berries, raspberries, concord grapes aren’t really berries but they can be found up north and boy are they tasty!

    A few poisonous ones, nightshade, poke, dolls eyes, holly berries, yew…. Probably more but I don’t remember.

  34. Personally, I have some wild grapes (I think are muscadines) that grow on the back of my lot here in North Carolina. They are thicker skinned than most grocery store types…and they do have seeds. They also have a great flavor. I had some wild blackberries but got tired or fighting the thorned vines and never got many berries because the birds beat me to them.

  35. Everyone else has already given you the useful answers, but here’s a weird one: Juniper berries are probably fairly well known, as juniper is a common ornamental. They’re not really edible as-is but one can use them to flavor gin.

  37. Maybe not technically berries, but mayhaw fruit are found throughout the south.

  38. I feel like I remember eating olallieberries often growing up, but haven’t seen them since I left the west coast.

  39. Not sure if this is well known, but there are thimbleberries in the UP of Michigan. Great in jams.

  40. Cloudberries, they apparently also grow in some of the more northern states but I enjoyed them many times when I lived in Alaska.

  41. Snozzberries.

    You may not know this, but the snozzberries taste like snozzberries!

  42. Salmon berry and thimble berry in the PNW. Oregon grape too. Huckleberries mostly grow in the Rockies and cascades, but they get exported enough to be recognizable. Anyone form North Dakota would know about June berries.

  43. A lot of people don’t know the name of it but they’d recognize it: False strawberries (also called Indian-strawberries). They’re pretty small and not as tasty as true wild strawberries, but they’re edible. They’re not sold in grocery stories or anything though.

  44. I love huckleberries to an unhealthy degree. Sadly we don’t have them in my current area. Mush sad

  45. Does it need to be a native? There’s an invasive called wineberry, wine raspberry, or Japanese raspberry that grows all over the place near me in Maryland and Pennsylvania. I eat them like crazy when I go on hikes. They’re very similar to a raspberry and are delicious. I think they’re often mistaken for raspberry.

  46. It should be noted lot of the answers you see here are going to be crossbreeds that you wouldn’t see in the wild and grown on farms.

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