Burke: Ribes viscosissimum

	Ribes viscosissimum
	Hall's sticky currant, mountain currant
Habit	Erect to spreading unarmed shrub up to 2 m. tall, with soft pubescence and stalked glands, the old branches becoming reddish-brown.
Leaves	Leaves alternate, petiolate, the blades 3-6 cm. broad, palmately 3- or 5-lobed much less than half their length, the lobes rounded, once or twice dentate with rounded teeth, soft-pubescent on both surfaces.
Flowers	Inflorescence of 6-12 flowered, erect to drooping racemes, pubescent and glandular, shorter than the leaves, the pedicels jointed, exceeding the bracts; calyx greenish-yellow, yellowish-white or pinkish, the tube narrowly bell-shaped, 6-7 mm. long; calyx lobes 5, oblong, pointed, spreading, about equal to the tube; petals 5, broadly ovate, narrowed abruptly to a short, broad claw, 2.5-4 mm. long, cream or white; stamens 5, equaling the petals; styles 2, fused nearly to the stigmas; ovary inferior, glabrous to glandular or pubescent.
Fruits	Berry ovoid, 10-12 mm. long, deep bluish-black.

	Ribes viscosissimum
Flowering time	May-July
Habitat	Open to forested, moist to fairly dry slopes, from middle to high elevations.
Distribution	Occurring chiefly east of the Cascades crest in Washington; British Columbia to California, east to the Rocky Mountains. [WildflowerSearch map] [BONAP county map]
Origin	Native
Conservation status	Not of concern
Sibling taxa	R. acerifolium, R. aureum, R. bracteosum, R. cereum, R. divaricatum, R. hudsonianum, R. inerme, R. lacustre, R. laxiflorum, R. lobbii, R. montigenum, R. nigrum, R. niveum, R. oxyacanthoides, R. rubrum, R. sanguineum, R. triste, R. velutinum, R. watsonianum, R. wolfii
Web links	Local floras: BC, CA, OR, WA Local Web sites: CalFlora, CalPhotos, Flora NW, PNW Herbaria, Turner Photog. WildflowerSearch iNaturalist (observations) USDA Plants Database LBJ Wildflower Center SEINet Plants of the World Online Encyclopedia of Life Wikipedia Google Image Search

Ribes viscosissimum

Hall's sticky currant, mountain currant

Habit

Erect to spreading unarmed shrub up to 2 m. tall, with soft pubescence and stalked glands, the old branches becoming reddish-brown.

Leaves

Leaves alternate, petiolate, the blades 3-6 cm. broad, palmately 3- or 5-lobed much less than half their length, the lobes rounded, once or twice dentate with rounded teeth, soft-pubescent on both surfaces.

Flowers

Inflorescence of 6-12 flowered, erect to drooping racemes, pubescent and glandular, shorter than the leaves, the pedicels jointed, exceeding the bracts;

calyx greenish-yellow, yellowish-white or pinkish, the tube narrowly bell-shaped, 6-7 mm. long;

calyx lobes 5, oblong, pointed, spreading, about equal to the tube;

petals 5, broadly ovate, narrowed abruptly to a short, broad claw, 2.5-4 mm. long, cream or white;

stamens 5, equaling the petals;

styles 2, fused nearly to the stigmas;

ovary inferior, glabrous to glandular or pubescent.

Fruits

Berry ovoid, 10-12 mm. long, deep bluish-black.