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Ribes hudsonianum ~ northern black currant

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Characteristics:

• OBL

• Michigan C Value: 10

• stems lack thorns or prickles

• only the lower surface is dotted with yellow glands

• fruit is a smooth, round berry up to half inch diameter, dotted with yellow glands, and ripens from green to purplish to black

• leaves and stems have an unpleasant odor

• stems are multiple from the base, erect to ascending

• leaves are coarsely toothed and heart shaped at the base

• the upper leaf surface is hairless to sparsely hairy

• the lower surfaceand somewhat to densely hairy, especially along the veins

• leaves have 3 to 5 primary lobes that may be again shallowly lobed

• leaf veins are prominent and radiate from the base

• leaf stalks are typically longer than the blade, hairless to minutely hairy and dotted with yellow glands

• flowers and fruit in erect or ascending racemes

• the year old twigs of this species are typically heavily glandular with resinous dots

• new twigs are green, finely hairy and gland dotted, becoming smooth and reddish brown with the thin outer layer peeling away

• older stems are brownish to gray with blocky lenticels (pores)

• usually in swamps mostly of white cedar

• native to northern Michigan

• native