| Ribes hudsonianum Richards. | |||
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| Family | Saxifragaceae — APG family: Grossulariaceae | ||
| Common name | northern black currant | ||
| Description | Shrub with erect branches; leaves cordate, 3-5-lobed, the lobes crenate-serrate, glandular below; racemes ascending or spreading; ovary more or less glandular, with sessile glands; calyx lobes ascending, white-pubescent; petals white; berry subglobose, black, more or less glaucous, glandular to nearly glabrous, bitter but edible. | ||
| Ecology | Moist woods, along streams. Described from lat. 67° in Alberta. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Broken line on circumpolar map indicates range of var. petiolare (Dougl.) Jancz. (R. petiolare Dougl.) in the western United States, and of the closely related R. dikuscha Fisch. in eastern Asia. |
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.