This section is from the book "An Illustrated Flora Of The Northern United States, Canada And The British Possessions Vol2", by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown. Also available from Amazon: An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British Possessions. 3 Volume Set..
Shrubs, mostly unarmed, a few species bristly. Leaves palmately veined, usually lobed. Racemes several-many-flowered; pedicels jointed beneath the ovary, usually with a pair of bractlets just below the joint. Ovary not spiny. Fruit disarticulating from its pedicel. [The About 65 species, natives of the north temperate zone, Mexico and the Andes of South America. Besides the following, some 25 others occur in western North America. Type: Ribes rubrum L.
Stems bristly and spiny. | 1. | R. lacustre. |
Stems unarmed. | ||
Ovary with sessile glands. | 2. | R. hudsonianum. |
Ovary without glands, or with stalked glands. | ||
Calyx-tube (hypanthium) obsolete. | ||
Ovary glabrous. | ||
Petals yellowish-green. | 3. | R. vulgare. |
Petals red. | 4. | R. triste. |
Ovary with stalked glands. | 5. | R. glandulosum |
Calyx-tube (hypanthium) evident. | ||
Calyx-tube greenish to yellowish-white. | ||
Racemes very short; leaf-lobes rounded; fruit red. | 6. | R. inebrians. |
Racemes long, drooping; leaf-lobes acutish; fruit black. | 7. | R. americanum. |
Calyx-tube bright yellow. | 8. | R. odoratum. |
Fig. 2197
Ribes oxyacanthoides var. lacustre Pers. Syn.
1: 252. 1805. Ribes lacustre Poir. in Lam. Encycl. Suppl. 2:
856. 1811.
Spines slender, weak, generally clustered. Branches usually densely bristly; petioles slender, more or less pubescent; leaves nearly orbicular, thin, glabrous or nearly so, deeply 5-7-lobed, 1'-7' wide, the lobes obtuse or acutish, incised-dentate; flowers racemose, green or purplish, about "2" long; pedicels slender, bracted at the base, about 2" long; calyx-tube short, its lobes short, broad, spreading; stamens very short, not exserted; berry 2"-$" in diameter, reddish, covered with weak gland-tipped bristles.
In swamps and wet woods, Newfoundland to Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Alaska and California. May-June.
 
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