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dogberry, eastern prickly gooseberry, groseillier des chiens, pasture currant

Habit Plants 0.5–1.5 m. Stems erect to spreading, glabrous or pubescent, glabrescent; spines at nodes absent or 1–3, 5–15 mm; prickles on internodes absent or sparse.
Leaves

petiole 1–3 cm, pilose and stipitate-glandular;

blade pentangular, 3–5-lobed, cleft (1/3–)1/2–3/4 to midrib, 1.7–5 cm, base truncate to cordate, surfaces glabrate or pubescent abaxially, pilose and sometimes with stipitate-glandular hairs adaxially, lobes deltate or cuneate-deltate, margins with rounded teeth, apex rounded or broadly acute.

Inflorescences

spreading, solitary flowers or 2(–4)-flowered corymbs, 4–5 cm, axis pilose and stipitate-glandular.

Pedicels

not jointed (sometimes with abcission layer at bract junction), 5–16 mm, glabrous or pilose and stipitate-glandular;

bracts lanceolate to ovate, 1.5–2.5 mm, hairy and glandular on margins.

Flowers

hypanthium greenish white, campanulate, 1.8–4 mm, glabrous or scattered-hairy;

sepals not overlapping, erect to recurved, greenish, oblong, 1.5–4 mm;

petals widely separated, erect, white, obovate, not conspicuously revolute or inrolled, 1–2.5 mm;

nectary disc not prominent;

stamens as long as or slightly longer than petals;

filaments linear, 1–2 mm, glabrous;

anthers greenish yellow, oval, 0.4–0.6 mm, apex rounded;

ovary setose with eglandular or gland-tipped bristles, sometimes sparsely villous;

styles connate to middle or 0.8 mm proximal to stigmas, 4.5–7 mm, villous on proximal 1/2 or glabrous.

Berries

palatable, greenish to pale red, globose, 7–15 mm, densely bristly or spiny.

2n

= 16.

Ribes cynosbati

Phenology Flowering May–Jun.
Habitat Rich hardwoods and conifer-hardwoods, rocky slopes, boulderfields, heath balds
Elevation 100-2100 m (300-6900 ft)
Distribution
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AL; AR; CT; GA; IA; IL; IN; KY; MA; MD; ME; MI; MN; MO; NC; ND; NH; NJ; NY; OH; OK; PA; SD; TN; VA; VT; WI; WV; NB; ON; QC
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Source FNA vol. 8, p. 37.
Parent taxa Grossulariaceae > Ribes
Sibling taxa
R. acerifolium, R. amarum, R. americanum, R. aureum, R. binominatum, R. bracteosum, R. californicum, R. canthariforme, R. cereum, R. curvatum, R. diacanthum, R. divaricatum, R. echinellum, R. erythrocarpum, R. glandulosum, R. hirtellum, R. hudsonianum, R. indecorum, R. inerme, R. lacustre, R. lasianthum, R. laxiflorum, R. leptanthum, R. lobbii, R. malvaceum, R. marshallii, R. menziesii, R. mescalerium, R. missouriense, R. montigenum, R. nevadaense, R. nigrum, R. niveum, R. oxyacanthoides, R. pinetorum, R. quercetorum, R. roezlii, R. rotundifolium, R. rubrum, R. sanguineum, R. sericeum, R. speciosum, R. thacherianum, R. triste, R. tularense, R. uva-crispa, R. velutinum, R. viburnifolium, R. victoris, R. viscosissimum, R. watsonianum, R. wolfii
Synonyms Grossularia cynosbati, R. cynosbati var. atrox, R. cynosbati var. glabratum
Name authority Linnaeus: Sp. Pl. 1: 202. 1753 ,
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