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Ribes aureum

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Ribes aureum, known as golden currant, clove currant, pruterberry, or buffalo currant, is a species of flowering plant in the genus Ribes native to North America, found in Canada and the central United States west of the Mississippi River, and now naturalized in parts of the eastern United States after escaping cultivation. It is a small to medium deciduous shrub, 2 to 3 meters tall, with lobed leaves that turn red in autumn. It blooms in spring with golden yellow flowers that carry a spicy fragrance recalling cloves or vanilla, and produces amber yellow to black berries about 1 centimeter across. NatureServe lists the species as Secure. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Facts
Classification
Diet
Photosynthetic Autotroph 1
System (Realm)
Freshwater 1
Scientific Name
Ribes aureum 1
Connections

Child Taxon Of

Saxifragales, Taxa
Source Wikidata: Ribes aureum
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Sources
1. Ribes aureum (Wikipedia)
  • System/realm (stated plainly in the entity own recorded description)
    Ribes aureum, known as golden currant, clove currant, pruterberry, or buffalo currant, is a species of flowering plant in the genus Ribes native to North America, found in Canada and the central United States west of the Mississippi River, and now naturalized in parts of the eastern United States after escaping cultivation.
  • Wikidata Q149376 (P225 taxon name)
  • lead sentence (diet), EntityId 405933
    Ribes aureum, known by the common names golden currant, clove currant, pruterberry and buffalo currant, is a species of flowering plant in the genus Ribes native to North America.
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IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
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Wikidata: Ribes aureum
Child Taxon Of: Saxifragales, Wikidata parent-taxon (P171) chainView the Source
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