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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
  • native