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Ribes glandulosum - (image 1 of 2)

Taxonomy

Family: Grossulariaceae

Habitat

Found in open and shrubby rich fens and rich swamps in NY. Gleason & Cronquist describe the habitat of this species as rocky woods and cliffs.

Associates

 Distribution

Newfoundland to AK and British Columbia, south to NJ, OH, MI, MN, and in mountains to TN and NC.

Morphology

Small, upright shrub with nodal and internodal spines either few and weak or absent. Leaves glabrous to softly hairy, eglandular, often cuneate at the base, lobes variable; bracts villous-ciliate; flowers solitary or 2-4 in axillary clustered; pedicels not articulate at the summit; ovary and hypanthium often villous; stamens and style ca. twice as long as the petals, just equaling the sepals.

Notes

Flowers May to early June

Wetland indicator: FACW

Photographed in a rich fen in central NY.

References

Gleason, Henry A. and A. Cronquist. 1991. Manual of Vascular Plants of Northeastern United States and Adjacent Canada. Second Ed.

The New York Botanical Garden. Bronx, NY

USDA, NRCS. 2002. The PLANTS Database, Version 3.5 (http://plants.usda.gov).
National Plant Data Center, Baton Rouge, LA 70874-4490 USA.

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