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Crater Lake Currant

Ribes erythrocarpum Coville & Leiberg

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Ribes erythrocarpum Coville & lyciberg, Proc. Biol
Soc. Wash. 10 : 132. 1896.
Branches trailing, rooting, unarmed, the ascending or upright shoots 2 dm. high or less. Foliage and inflorescence finely pubescent and glandular, the glands short-stalked ; leaves orbicular in outline or slightly wider than long, thin, cordate, 5 cm. wide or less,
rather deeply 3-5-lobed, the lobes obtuse, irregularly crenate and serrulate, the slender petioles mostly somewhat shorter than the blades ; racemes erect, 6-20-flowered ; bracts
lanceolate to obovate, persistent, about as long as the nearly erect pedicels ; hypanthium short ; sepals spreading, about 3 mm. long, obtuse or acutish, yellow to salmon-colored, puberulent without; petals spatulate, glabrous, colored like the sepals and one third to one half their length ; fruiting racemes erect, usually extending above the leaves ; berry subpyriform to globose, scarlet, 8-10 mm. long, without bloom, beset with short glandular hairs.
Type locality: Canon of Pole Bridge Creek, south of Crater Ivake, Cascade Mountains, Oregon.
Distribution : Cascade Mountains of southern Oregon, in Klamath, Jackson, and Douglas
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Frederick Vernon Coville, Nathaniel Lord Britton, Henry Allan Gleason, John Kunkel Small, Charles Louis Pollard, Per Axel Rydberg. 1908. GROSSULARIACEAE, PLATANACEAE, CROSSOSOMATACEAE, CONNARACEAE, CALYCANTHACEAE, and ROSACEAE (pars). North American flora. vol 22(3). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
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Ribes erythrocarpum

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Ribes erythrocarpum is an uncommon North American species of currant known by the common name Crater Lake currant.[1] It is native to the Cascade Mountains in the US State of Oregon, including inside Crater Lake National Park.[2][3][4]

Ribes erythrocarpum is a trailing shrub with vertical branches up to 50 cm (20 inches) tall. It produces copper- or salmon-colored flowers and scarlet egg-shaped berries.[5][6]

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Ribes erythrocarpum: Brief Summary

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Ribes erythrocarpum is an uncommon North American species of currant known by the common name Crater Lake currant. It is native to the Cascade Mountains in the US State of Oregon, including inside Crater Lake National Park.

Ribes erythrocarpum is a trailing shrub with vertical branches up to 50 cm (20 inches) tall. It produces copper- or salmon-colored flowers and scarlet egg-shaped berries.

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