Ribes sanguineum var. sanguineum
Redflower Currant

Family: Grossulariaceae (Gooseberry family)

Photo taken in the Icicle River Canyon, dry openly wooded slope

Flowers:

generally 10 to 20 flowers per raceme; petals white to red, 2 to 3.5 mm; hypanthium tubular-campanulate, longer than wide, 2 to 7 mm; sepals red, 4 to 5 mm, slightly or no greater than the hypanthium; anthers not gland tipped

Fruit:

black-blue, 4 to 8 mm, glaucous, with glandular hairs

Leaves:

irregularly toothed and finely serrate, blade 2 to 7 cm; upper surface puberulent, lower surface whitish hairy to finely tomentose

Plant:

shrub, less than 4 meters tall, spines and prickles lacking. Berries eaten by the Thompson and Upper Thompson (Lytton Band).

Habitat:

open to wooded areas, moist to dry valleys and lower mountains

Distribution of species:

British Columbia to northern California, from the coast to the east slope of the Cascades in Washington and northern Oregon

Distribution of genus:

120 species: Northern Hemisphere and temperate South America