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Sticky currant 



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bushy shrubs to 5 feet high, with tap- 

 roots, not sprouting or layering, heavy 

 seed-producers; highly susceptible to 

 white pine blister rust; not very 

 shade tolerant; on open ridgetops, 

 cut- or burned-over areas or along 

 rights-of-way in wooded areas; often 

 with western larch, lodgepole, or 

 ponderosa pine, also at higher eleva- 

 tions with subalpine fir; Cascades, 

 Wallowa and Blue Mts., Oreg., Wash.; 

 type locality, Rocky Mts. 

 sticky currant (Ribes viscosissimum) . 



