| Ribes glanduldosum Grauer | |||
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| Family | Saxifragaceae — APG family: Grossulariaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Ribes prostratum LHer. | ||
| Common name | skunk currant | ||
| Description | Shrub with ascending branches; leaves smooth, deeply cordate, 5-7-lobed, the lobes acute, doubly serrate; racemes ascending, glandular-hispid; calyx white to roseate, petals cuneate to flabellate, whitish or pink; fruit red, with long, capitate glands, with odor of skunk. | ||
| Ecology | Woods, rocky slopes in the lowlands. Type locality not given. |
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.