Ribes lacustre |
Ribes echinellum |
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black gooseberry, black swamp gooseberry, bristly black gooseberry, bristly swamp currant, gadellier lacustre, prickly currant, swamp currant, swamp gooseberry, swamp or prickly or bristly black currant |
Miccosukee gooseberry |
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Habit | Plants 1–2 m. Stems erect to spreading or prostrate, finely puberulent, sometimes glabrous except for prickles, not glandular; spines at nodes 1–3, 3–12 mm; prickles on internodes scattered to dense. | Plants 0.7–1.5 m. Stems erect or recurving, (rooting at nodes), glabrous or, rarely, pubescent; spines at nodes 2–3, 5–16 mm; prickles on internodes absent. |
Leaves | petiole 0.7–5.5 cm, pubescent, stipitate-glandular; blade pentagonal, 3–7-lobed, cleft 1/2+ to midrib and again irregularly shallowly cleft, 1–7.8 cm, base truncate or cordate, surfaces glabrous or sparsely puberulent, sometimes glandular on main veins abaxially, sometimes with scattered, yellow, sessile, crystalline glands, lobes acutish, margins deeply 1 or 2 times crenate-dentate, apex acute. |
petiole to 3 cm, puberulent and stipitate-glandular; blade obovate to rotund, 3-lobed, cleft 3/4 to midrib, 1–3 cm, base rounded-cuneate, truncate, or subcordate, surfaces puberulent and stipitate-glandular, lobes oblong to rounded, margins with 2–4 rounded teeth, apex rounded to broadly acute. |
Inflorescences | spreading to pendent, 5–18(–25)-flowered racemes, 3–4 cm, axis reddish stipitate-glandular and puberulent, flowers evenly spaced. |
spreading, solitary flowers or 2-flowered racemes, 3–5 cm, axis pilose or puberulent and stipitate-glandular. |
Pedicels | jointed (joint sometimes obscured by glands and difficult to see especially on short pedicels; may appear as darker line immediately proximal to ovary), 2–10 mm, glandular-bristly; bracts linear-lanceolate, 1.8–4 mm, puberulent and reddish or purplish stipitate-glandular. |
not jointed, 1–9 mm, pilose and densely stipitate-glandular; bracts lanceolate-ovate, 1.5–2 mm, pilose, rarely stipitate-glandular. |
Flowers | hypanthium cream to orangish, shallowly saucer-shaped to crateriform, (0.7–)1–1.2(–1.5) mm, glabrous; sepals somewhat overlapping, spreading or reflexed, cream to pale yellowish green or dull reddish brown, reddish color deepening with age, very broadly ovate-oblong, 1.5–3.5 mm; petals widely separated, erect, pale yellowish green distally and reddish proximally to reddish throughout, broadly fan-shaped to semicircular, cuneate-flabellate, not conspicuously revolute or inrolled, 1–1.5(–1.7) mm; nectary disc prominent, pinkish, raised, angled, covering most of ovary; stamens slightly longer than petals; filaments linear, 1.1–1.7 mm, glabrous; anthers yellow, transversely oblong, 0.5–1 mm, broader than long, apex blunt; ovary sparsely to thickly stipitate-glandular with slender, usually reddish- to purplish-tipped hairs, rarely glabrous; styles connate to middle, 1.4–2 mm, glabrous. |
hypanthium greenish white, tubular, 4.5–5 mm, puberulent; sepals not overlapping, reflexed, cream, oblong-rounded, 5–7 mm; petals not connivent, erect, white, narrowly oblong to narrowly oblanceolate, inrolled and appearing tubular, 2–3 mm; nectary disc not prominent; stamens 4–5 times longer than petals; filaments linear, 9–15 mm, pilose; anthers reddish pink, oblong, 0.7–1.6 mm, apex rounded; ovary with gland-tipped bristles; styles connate 3/4 their lengths, 10–20 mm, glabrous. |
Berries | palatable but insipid, red, becoming black or dark purple, ellipsoid, 4–8(–14) mm, slenderly stipitate-glandular, bristly with reddish stipitate-glandular hairs. |
palatability not known, purplish, globose, 12 mm, spiny (spines with flattened apex). |
2n | = 16. |
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Ribes lacustre |
Ribes echinellum |
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Phenology | Flowering Apr–Aug. | Flowering Mar–Apr. |
Habitat | Moist woods, conifer swamps, stream banks, dry forest slopes, subalpine ridges, krummholtz | Rich woods |
Elevation | 0-3400 m (0-11200 ft) | 50-200 m (200-700 ft) |
Distribution |
AK; AL; CA; CO; CT; ID; IN; MA; ME; MI; MN; MT; NH; NJ; NV; NY; OR; PA; RI; SD; UT; VA; VT; WA; WI; WV; WY; AB; BC; MB; NB; NL; NS; NT; ON; PE; QC; SK
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FL; SC |
Discussion | The petals and stamens are inserted on the rim of the pink nectary disc in Ribes lacustre. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Of conservation concern. Ribes echinellum is known from three sites in Jefferson and Gadsen counties, Florida, and one in McCormick County, South Carolina. Q. P. Sinnott (1985) cited the glabrous style, tubular petals, and greenish sepals of R. echinellum when he disagreed with A. Berger’s (1924) inclusion of it in sect. Grossularia; studies by M. Weigend et al. (2002) and L. M. Schultheis and M. J. Donoghue (2004) support retaining R. echinellum in sect. Grossularia. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 8, p. 26. | FNA vol. 8, p. 41. |
Parent taxa | Grossulariaceae > Ribes | Grossulariaceae > Ribes |
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Synonyms | R. oxyacanthoides var. lacustre | Grossularia echinella |
Name authority | (Persoon) Poiret: in J. Lamarck et al., Encycl., suppl. 2: 856. 1812 , | (Coville) Rehder: J. Arnold Arbor. 7: 148. 1926 , |
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