Ribes cereum Douglas
White Currant (currant; Stink Currant; wax currant)
Grossulariaceae (Currant family)
Introduction to Vascular Plants
White Currant (currant; Stink Currant; wax currant)
Grossulariaceae (Currant family)
Introduction to Vascular Plants
SUBTAXA PRESENT IN BC
Ribes cereum var. cereum
Species Information
General:
Deciduous shrub, loosely branched, 0.5-1.5 m tall; stems erect to spreading, unarmed, finely short-hairy and often with short, stalked glands; bark greyish-brown to reddish-brown.
Leaves:
Alternate, nearly kidney-shaped to broadly fan-shaped, 0.5-3.5 cm long, 1-4 cm wide, shallowly 3- to 5-lobed and toothed, glabrous or with short, stalked glands; stalks about equal to the blades.
Flowers:
Inflorescence of 2-8 flowers in tight clusters on stalks shorter than the leaves; flower stalks subtended by 1-3 small, hairy, toothed bracteoles; petals white to pink, fan-shaped to spoon-shaped, 1-2 mm long; hypanthium nearly cylindric, 5-9 mm long; calyces white to greenish-white, the lobes egg-shaped to deltoid, 1.5-3 mm long; styles somewhat fused nearly to the stigmas.
Fruits:
Berries, egg-shaped, dull to bright red, 6-8 mm long, glabrous to sparsely glandular.
USDA Species Characteristics
Flower Colour:
White
Blooming Period:
Early Summer
Fruit/Seed characteristics:
Colour: Red
Present from Spring to Fall
Source: The USDA
Ecology
Ecological Framework for Ribes cereum
The table below shows the species-specific information calculated from
original data (BEC database) provided by the BC Ministry of Forests and Range.
(Updated August, 2013)
The table below shows the species-specific information calculated from
original data (BEC database) provided by the BC Ministry of Forests and Range.
(Updated August, 2013)
| Site Information |
Value / Class |
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|
Avg |
Min |
Max |
|
| Elevation
(metres) |
845 | 250 | 1830 |
| Slope
Gradient (%) |
31 | 0 | 105 |
|
Aspect (degrees) |
228 | 0 | 360 |
| Soil
Moisture Regime (SMR) [0 - very xeric; 4 - mesic; 8 - hydric] |
2 | 0 | 7 |
| Modal
Nutrient Regime
Class |
C | ||
| #
of field plots species was recorded in: |
285 | ||
| Modal
BEC Zone Class |
IDF | ||
|
All BEC Zones (# of stations/zone) species was recorded in |
BG(53), ESSF(5), ICH(2), IDF(103), MS(18), PP(99) | ||
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Source:
Klinkenberg 2013
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