| Ribes lacistre (Pers.) Poir. | |||
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| Family | Saxifragaceae — APG family: Grossulariaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Ribes oxyacanthoides var. lacustris Pers. | ||
| Common name | bristly black currant | ||
| Description | Shrub with erect to spreading branches; young stems covered with bristly prickles and weak thorns; leaves cordate, 3-5 parted, the parts lobate and serrate, or double crenate-dentate; racemes spreading or drooping, glandular-bristly; petals pinkish, cuneate-flabellate; fruit dark purple, stipitate, glandular, somewhat palatable. | ||
| Ecology | Moist woods, along streams. |
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.