Kibes 



Grossulariaceae 



521 



50 



Map 1081 

 Grossularia missouriensis 



(Nutt.) Cov. 



iritt. 



50 



Map 1082 



Grossularia hirtella (Michx.) Spach 



Pedicels not jointed beneath the ovary; flowers in clusters of 1-4, rarely 5; bractlets 

 of flowers sheathlike, as wide as long, about 2 mm long; shrubs with nodal spines 

 (usually lacking in Grossularia hirtella) 3249A. Grossularia, p. 521. 



3249. RIBES L. Currant 



Leaves with numerous resinous dots beneath 1. R. americanum. 



Leaves without resinous dots beneath. 



Ovary densely glandular-bristly. (See excluded species no. 289, p. 1056.) 



R. glandulosum. 



Ovary glabrous. 



Flowers purplish; weak, ascending shrubs about 0.5 m high. (See excluded species 



no. 292, p. 1056.) R- triste. 



Flowers yellow or greenish yellow; erect shrubs more than 0.5 m high. 



Flowers greenish yellow; calyx tube obsolete; fruit red. (See excluded species 



no. 291, p. 1056.) R- sativum. 



Flowers bright yellow; calyx tube evident; fruit black. (See excluded species 

 no. 290, p. 1056.) R. odoratum. 



1. Kibes americanum Mill. (Ribes floridum L'Her. and Ribes ameri- 

 canum f. mesochorum (Nieuwl.) Deam.) 1 American Black Currant. 

 Map 1079. Infrequent to frequent in the lake area, becoming rare south- 

 ward and probably absent from most of the unglaciated area. In the cen- 

 tral part of the state it grows generally in wet prairie habitats and springy 

 places and in the lake area it grows in similar habitats and in mucky 

 places and decadent tamarack bogs. 



N. B. to Sask., southw. to Va., Ky., Iowa, and Nebr. 



3249A. GROSSULARIA [Tourn.] Mill. Gooseberry 



Ovary with soft, glandless bristles or prickles, rarely glabrous; spreading shrubs with 

 nodal spines; nodal spines 1-3, rarely lacking, generally about 10 mm long; our 

 common wild gooseberry 1. G. Cynosbati. 



1 Ribes americanum forma mesochorum (Nieuwland) Deam, comb, now Coreosma 

 americana var. mesochora Nieuwland. Amer. Midland Nat. 4: 60. 1915. 



