Ribes sanguineum |
Ribes laxiflorum |
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blood currant, flowering currant, red currant, red-flowering currant, redflower currant, winter currant |
coast trailing currant, trailing black currant, trailing black or spreading currant |
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Habit | Plants 1–4 m. Stems erect, finely pubescent, stipitate-glandular; spines at nodes absent; prickles on internodes absent. | 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. |
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Leaves | petiole 2–7 cm, puberulent, short stipitate-glandular; blade broadly reniform or cordate-orbiculate to deltate-ovate, nearly equally to irregularly 5-lobed, cleft nearly 1/4 to midrib, 2–7 cm, base subtruncate to cordate, surfaces puberulent to whitish-tomentose abaxially, puberulent adaxially or puberulent and colorless, sessile-glandular on both surfaces, lobes deltate to obtuse, margins finely 2–3 times crenate and denticulate or serrate, apex broadly acute. |
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. |
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Inflorescences | pendent to stiffly spreading or ascending or erect, 5–40-flowered racemes, 5–15 cm, axis crisped-pubescent and stipitate-glandular, flowers evenly spaced. |
erect or ascending, 6–8-flowered racemes, (2–)3–6(–8) cm, axis stipitate-glandular, flowers evenly spaced. |
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Pedicels | jointed, 5–10 mm, pubescent, stipitate-glandular; bracts oblanceolate or lanceolate, 2–12 mm, with scattered, short hairs and stalked glands. |
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. |
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Flowers | hypanthium white, pink, rose, or red, tubular to campanulate, 3–7 mm, pubescent, stipitate-glandular; sepals not overlapping, spreading or reflexed, white, pink, or red, ovate-elliptic or oblong to oblanceolate or lanceolate, 4–5 mm; petals not or nearly connivent to connivent, erect, white or pink to red, obovate-spatulate to oblong or almost square, not conspicuously revolute or inrolled, 1–3.5 mm; nectary disc not prominent; stamens shorter than to as long as petals; filaments linear or slightly expanded at base, 1.2–2 mm, glabrous; anthers cream, oblong-oval, 0.5–0.8 mm, apex shallowly notched; ovary stipitate-glandular to strongly stipitate-glandular and crisped-puberulent; styles connate nearly to stigmas, 4–6 mm, glabrous or with scattered, stipitate glands at base. |
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. |
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Berries | palatable but insipid, blue-black, glaucous, ovoid or globose, 3–9(–10) mm, yellowish or greenish stipitate-glandular. |
palatable, purplish black, ovoid, (4–)5–10(–14) mm, pubescent, reddish purple stipitate-glandular. |
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2n | = 16. |
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Ribes sanguineum |
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 |
CA; ID; OR; WA; BC [Introduced in c Europe]
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AK; CA; CO; ID; MT; NM; OR; UT; WA; AB; BC; YT; Asia (Siberia)
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Discussion | Varieties 2 (2 in the flora). Ribes sanguineum is widely cultivated. It begins to bloom very early in the season, providing a nectar source for pollinators when little else is available. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Ribes laxiflorum flowers have stamens with reddish filaments. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Key |
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Source | FNA vol. 8, p. 21. | FNA vol. 8, p. 24. | ||||
Parent taxa | Grossulariaceae > Ribes | Grossulariaceae > Ribes | ||||
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Synonyms | R. coloradense | |||||
Name authority | Pursh: Fl. Amer. Sept. 1: 164. 1813 , | Pursh: Fl. Amer. Sept. 2: 731. 1813 , | ||||
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