Field Guide to Forest Plants of Northern Idaho

Alnus key and conspectus Rosa conspectus
United States
Department of
Agriculture

Forest Service

Rocky Mountain
Research Station
Ft. Collins, CO

General Technical Report
RMRS-GTR-118-CD

February 2004

Authors
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Species description
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Trees
Shrubs
Ferns & Friends
Forbs
Graminoids
Descriptive drawings
Collecting and
   pressing methods
Glossary
References


Ribes Conspectus


Species Arming Bark Leaves Flowers Fruit
Ribes cereum
wax currant
Rice
unarmed smooth;
greyish-brown or reddish-brown
shallow;
3-5 lobed;
waxy upper surface;
both sides glandular
2-8 tubular flowers;
greenish to pinkish;
singular in headlike clusters
smooth;
red-orange berry;
6-8mm
Ribes hudsonianum
stinking currant
Rihu
unarmed smooth;
yellow glandular
maplelike;
3-5 lobed;
glandular to hairy
saucer-shaped;
white;
many-flowered raceme
smooth;
black;
8-16 berries in clusters
Ribes lacustre
prickly currant
Rila
armed;
prickles and spines
smooth;
reddish brown
maplelike;
3-5 lobed;
serrate;
glossy upper surface, velvety undersurface
saucer-shaped;
yellow to reddish;
7-15 flowers in a raceme
edible;
stalked glandular;
deep purple berry
Ribes viscosissimum
sticky currant
Rivi
unarmed shreddy;
dark reddish-brown
maplelike;
3-5 lobed;
hairy both surfaces;
coarsely toothed
bell-shaped;
greenish-white;
3-8 flowers in a raceme
bad tasting;
stiff hairy;
few bluish-black berries