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Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Saxifragales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Ribes missouriense   FAMILY Grossulariaceae   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Ribes missouriense   FAMILY Grossulariaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Ribes missouriense

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 8 (2009)

Ribes missouriense

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)

Ribes missouriense

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Grossularia missouriensis

 

COMMON NAME:
Missouri Gooseberry


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image of Ribes missouriense, Missouri Gooseberry

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_grmi2_001_lvd

        

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Ribes missouriense   FAMILY Grossulariaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Ribes missouriense   FAMILY Grossulariaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Ribes missouriense

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 8
Ribes missouriense

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Ribes missouriense

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Grossularia missouriensis

 

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4919

Shrub
Perennial

Habitat: Dry to mesic upland forests and woodlands, riparian forests, stream banks, bluffs, old fields, fencerows, per Weakley's Flora

Native: northwest of the Carolinas & Georgia

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IS THE PLANT "ARMED"?
Armed with strong, stiff nodal spines

LEAVES:
Deciduous
Simple
Leaves palmately veined
Alternate

FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
Greenish-white sepals, white petals, becoming pink-tinged
Radially symmetrical
5-lobed calyx
5 petals
5 long-exserted stamens
Inferior ovary
Bisexual

Flowers solitary or in corymbs of 2-4

FRUIT:
Spring/Summer
Red to red-purple
Berry

 

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