OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

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

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
 Ribes lacustre   FAMILY Grossulariaceae   Go to FSUS key

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Ribes lacustre   FAMILY Grossulariaceae

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

Ribes lacustre

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

Ribes lacustre

 

COMMON NAME:
 Bristly Black Currant, Spiny Swamp Currant

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image of Ribes lacustre, Bristly Black Currant, Spiny Swamp Currant

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_rila_001_lvd

        

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
 Ribes lacustre   FAMILY Grossulariaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Ribes lacustre   FAMILY Grossulariaceae

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

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

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

4319

Shrub
Perennial

Habitat: forests, acid swamps, per Weakley's Flora

Native north of the Carolinas

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IS THE PLANT "ARMED"?
Armed with slender nodal spines and numerous internodal prickles

LEAVES:
Deciduous
Simple
Leaves palmately veined
Alternate

FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
Cream to yellowish-green or dull reddish-brown sepals, yellowish-green to reddish petals
Radially symmetrical
5-lobed calyx
5 petals
5 stamens
Inferior ovary
Bisexual

Flowers in racemes of 4-many

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Red ripening to black or dark purple
Berry

 

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