Ribes glandulosum
Pl. Minus Cogn., 2. 1784 ,.
Plants 0.5–1 m. Stems reclining or sprawling to ± strongly ascending, sparingly pubescent and glandular, sometimes glabrescent; spines at nodes absent; prickles on internodes absent. Leaves: petiole 3–7 cm; glabrous or sparsely glandular; blade pentangular, 5–7-lobed, cleft nearly to midrib, 3–8 cm, base cordate, surfaces glabrous or pubescent along veins abaxially, lobes deltate, margins serrate or 2 times serrate, apex acute. Inflorescences erect or ascending, 6–15-flowered racemes, 3–5 cm, axis stipitate-glandular, flowers evenly spaced. Pedicels jointed, 2–7 mm, pubescent and stipitate-glandular; bracts linear, 1–2 mm, stipitate-glandular. Flowers: hypanthium greenish white, deeply saucer-shaped, 0.7–1 mm, glabrous or sparsely hairy, sometimes stipitate-glandular; sepals not overlapping, spreading, white to pink, oblong-obovate from rounded sinuses, 1.5–2.5 mm; petals widely separated, erect, pinkish, cuneate to flabellate, not conspicuously revolute or inrolled, 0.5–1.5 mm; nectary disc prominent, yellowish, flat, not angled, covering most of ovary; stamens as long as or slightly longer than petals; filaments linear, 1.5 mm, glabrous; anthers cream or dark pink, ovate, 0.3–0.5 mm, apex shallowly notched; ovary glandular-bristly; styles connate 1/4 their lengths, 1.5 mm, glabrous, with few glands at base. Berries palatable or unpalatable, dark red, ovoid, 6–8 mm, glandular-bristly.
Phenology: Flowering May–Jun.
Habitat: Conifer and conifer-hardwood swamps, wet woods, spruce-fir forests, montane thickets, krummholz, seeps, boulder fields, clearings, roadsides
Elevation: 0-2100 m
Distribution
Alta., B.C., Man., N.B., Nfld. and Labr., N.W.T., N.S., Nunavut, Ont., P.E.I., Que., Sask., Yukon, Alaska, Conn., Maine, Md., Mass., Mich., Minn., N.H., N.J., N.Y., N.C., Ohio, Pa., Tenn., Vt., Va., W.Va., Wis.
Discussion
Ribes glandulosum herbage has a skunklike odor. The glands are dark pink atop stalks as long as 1 mm. The flowers have stamens with pinkish filaments.
Selected References
None.