| Ribes laxiflorum Pursh | |||
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| Family | Saxifragaceae — APG family: Grossulariaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Ribes affine Dougl. | ||
| Common name | trailing black currant | ||
| Description | Shrub with decumbent or spreading branches; young branches puberulent and glandular; leaves deeply cordate, deeply 5-lobed, the lobes sharply double-crenate- serrate, glabrous above, puberulent and glandular below; racemes erect or ascend- ing, shorter than leaves, puberulent and stipitate-glandular; calyx lobes deltoid, ovate; petals red to purplish; fruit ovoid, purplish-black, glaucous, glandular- bristly, edible. | ||
| Ecology | Moist woods. Described from the northwest coast of North America. |
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.