| Ribes triste Pall. | |||
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| Family | Saxifragaceae — APG family: Grossulariaceae | ||
| Common name | northern red currant | ||
| Description | Shrub with prostrate or ascending, rooting branches; leaves cordate, broadly 3-5- lobed, the lobes coarsely dentate-serrate, glabrous or pubescent below; racemes shorter than leaves, loosely several-flowered, pubescent; ovary glabrous; calyx lobes broadly cuneate-rhombic; petals broadly cuneate, purple; disk low, 5-angled; berry ovoid, bright red, glabrous, sour, good to eat. | ||
| Ecology | Wet meadows, along streams, spruce forests, from the lowlands to timberline. |
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.