| Ribes bracteosum Dougl. | |||
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| Family | Saxifragaceae — APG family: Grossulariaceae | ||
| Common name | stink currant | ||
| Description | Shrub with ascending or erect, sparingly pubescent branches; leaves cordate, deeply 5-7-lobed, the lobes acute, sharply and irregularly serrate or double-serrate; racemes erect, up to 20 cm long, loosely flowered; lower bracts foliaceous, lobed; calyx lobes ovate-lanceolate; petals white, cuneate-flabellate, clawed; berry sub- globose, black, strongly glaucous, glandular, with a disagreeable taste. | ||
| Ecology | Banks of streams, woods. |
This is a digital representation of Eric Hultén’s ‘Flora of Alaska and Neighboring Territories: A Manual of the Vascular Plants’, which was published by Stanford University Press in 1968. The book was digitized by C. Webb (at UAMN) as part of the Flora of Alaska project, with funding by the US NSF (Grant 1759964 to Ickert-Bond & Webb), and with permission of Stanford University Press. Data and images © 1968 Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Jr. Univ. Usage licence: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0. NB: You may find OCR errors; please refer to the hard-copy if in doubt.