Ribes laxiflorum |
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coast trailing currant, trailing black currant, trailing black or spreading currant |
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Habit | Plants 0.5–1 m (in shade sometimes semiscandent and to 7 m). |
Stems | decumbent, vining, or spreading, finely crisped-puberulent, sparsely subsessile-glandular; spines at nodes absent; prickles on internodes absent. |
Leaves | petiole (1.5–)2.5–5.5(–8) cm, pubescent, stipitate-glandular; blade orbiculate, 5–7-lobed, cleft nearly 1/2 to midrib, (2.5–)4–12 cm, base deeply cordate, surfaces ± crisped-puberulent at least on veins, usually with some sessile, crystalline glands and more numerous, very short-stipitate, noncrystalline glands abaxially, glabrous adaxially, lobes ovate-triangular, margins shallowly to coarsely 2 times crenate-serrate, apex acute to obtuse. |
Inflorescences | erect or ascending, 6–8-flowered racemes, (2–)3–6(–8) cm, axis stipitate-glandular, flowers evenly spaced. |
Pedicels | jointed, (2.2–)3.2–12 mm, pubescent, red stipitate-glandular; bracts linear to lanceolate-subulate, 0.9–2.8(–3.6) mm, copiously crisped-puberulent, moderately reddish stipitate-glandular. |
Flowers | hypanthium greenish white with pinkish tinge to red or purple, shallowly bowl-shaped, 0.6–1 mm, pubescent and stipitate-glandular abaxially, glabrous adaxially; sepals not overlapping, spreading, tips usually slightly recurved, greenish white to deep red or purplish, deltate-ovate to oblong-ovate, 2.4–4 mm; petals widely separated, erect, pinkish to reddish or purplish, greenish at apex, reniform or crescent-shaped, not conspicuously revolute or inrolled, 0.9–1.6 mm; nectary disc prominent, cream, reddish, or brownish, flat, 5-lobed, covering ovary; stamens nearly as long as to slightly longer than petals; filaments linear, 1–1.7 mm, glabrous; anthers cream, oval, 0.5–0.7 mm, apex blunt; ovary finely puberulent, prominently reddish stipitate-glandular, (glandular hairs to 0.5 mm); styles connate 1/3–2/3 their lengths, 1.4–1.8 mm, glabrous. |
Berries | palatable, purplish black, ovoid, (4–)5–10(–14) mm, pubescent, reddish purple stipitate-glandular. |
Ribes laxiflorum |
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Phenology | Flowering Mar–Aug. |
Habitat | Moist woods, stream banks, forest edges, clearings, avalanche tracks |
Elevation | 0-2600 m (0-8500 ft) |
Distribution |
AK; CA; CO; ID; MT; NM; OR; UT; WA; AB; BC; YT; Asia (Siberia)
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Discussion | Ribes laxiflorum flowers have stamens with reddish filaments. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 8, p. 24. |
Parent taxa | Grossulariaceae > Ribes |
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Synonyms | R. coloradense |
Name authority | Pursh: Fl. Amer. Sept. 2: 731. 1813 , |
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