Ribes americanum (wild black currant)
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Key Characteristics
- Erect, unarmed shrub up to 1.5 meters high
- Branches slender and spreading
- Roots very shallow
- Bark thin, smooth, dark brown
- Leaves alternate, simple, borne several to a short shoot or separately on a long shoot, blades 3-8 cm long and equally as wide; palmately 3 lobed, sometimes 5 when the lower lobes are deeply cleft, dentate to doubly serrate, thin, glabrous, yellowish green above, pubescent beneath
- Twigs slender, slightly pubescent, with large conspicuous resin glands, and broad leaf scars
- Buds ovoid, bud scales with occasional hairs and conspicuous resin glands
- Fruit a many seeded berry, black, smooth, globose, less than 1 cm across, palatable when cooked
Sourced from "Michigan Shrubs"
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From Louis Landry