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Ribes sanguineum

Flowering Plants

Ribes sanguineum, the flowering currant or red-flowering currant, is a deciduous shrub in the family Grossulariaceae, native to western North America along the coastal ranges of British Columbia, Washington and Oregon, with populations extending south to Santa Barbara County in California and a possibly extirpated population on Guadalupe Island in Mexico. It grows to about 3 meters tall and wide with multiple upright-arching to rounded stems and dark brownish-grey bark marked by lighter lenticels. Its alternate, palmately five-lobed leaves span 2 to 7 centimeters and smell strongly resinous when young. In early spring it produces dangling racemes of 5 to 30 flowers, each 5 to 10 millimeters across with five petals in shades of red, pink or white. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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Classification
Diet
Photosynthetic Autotroph 1
System (Realm)
Terrestrial 2
Relationship to People
Invasive or Introduced Species 1
Scientific Name
Ribes sanguineum 1
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Child Taxon Of

Saxifragales, Taxa
Source Wikidata: Ribes sanguineum
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1. Ribes sanguineum (Wikipedia)
  • Wikidata Q149372 (P225 taxon name)
  • lead sentence (diet), EntityId 405145
    Ribes sanguineum, the flowering currant, redflower currant, red-flowering currant, or red currant is a North American species of flowering plant in the family Grossulariaceae.
  • article text (relationship to people), EntityId 405145
    Red-flowering currant has been an invasive species in New Zealand since it was naturalized in 1904, where it forms dense stands in shrublands and along waterways which crowd out native vegetation.
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2. GBIF Species API
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IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
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Wikidata: Ribes sanguineum
Child Taxon Of: Saxifragales, Wikidata parent-taxon (P171) chainView the Source
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