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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 rubrum   FAMILY Grossulariaceae   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Ribes rubrum   FAMILY Grossulariaceae

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

Ribes rubrum

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

Ribes rubrum

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

Ribes rubrum

INCLUDING Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)

Ribes sativum

 

COMMON NAME:
Garden Red Currant, cultivated currant


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image of Ribes rubrum, Garden Red Currant, cultivated currant

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_rivu_001_lvd

        

 

 

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

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Ribes rubrum   FAMILY Grossulariaceae

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

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

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

INCLUDING Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Ribes sativum

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

4962

Shrub
Perennial

Habitat: Persistent from cultivation and escaped to adjacent fence-rows and disturbed areas, per Weakley's Flora

Non-native: Europe

Rare

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IS THE PLANT "ARMED"?
No nodal spines; no internodal prickles

LEAVES:
Deciduous
Simple
Leaves palmately veined
Alternate

FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
Green or greenish brown sepals, cream to pinkish petals
Radially symmetrical
5-lobed calyx
5 petals
5 stamens
Inferior ovary
Bisexual

Flowers in racemes of 4-many

FRUIT:
Summer
Bright red
Berry

 

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