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Ribes glandulosum ~ skunk currant

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Characteristics:

FACW
Michigan C Value: 5
deciduous, straggly to erect shrub
up to 1 m tall
branches smooth and brown to reddish gray
leaves and stems emit a skunk like odor when crushed
translucent red berries, to 6 mm across, covered with bristly glandular hair
fruiting racemes are ascending
fruits ripen July to August
fruits usually have bristles
northern Michigan
native

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