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Ribes aureum

Flowering Plants

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
Relationship to People
Invasive or Introduced Species 1
Comparison
NatureServe Rank
G5 Secure 2
CITES Appendix
Not Listed 3
Scientific Name
Ribes aureum 1
Conservation Status
Not Evaluated 4
Connections

Child Taxon Of

Saxifragales, Taxa
Source Wikidata: Ribes aureum

In Biome

Riparian Zone, Biomes
Source Plants For A Future: Ribes aureum
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Armenia

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Austria

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Belgium

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Bulgaria

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Croatia

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Czechia

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Denmark

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Estonia

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France

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Germany

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Hungary

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Italy

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Lithuania

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Manchuria

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North America

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Norway

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Romania

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Russia

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Turkmenistan

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Uzbekistan

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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.
  • Varieties
    Ribes aureum var. gracillimum: below 910 m (3,000 ft) in the California Coast Ranges Ribes aureum var. villosum, clove currant (syn: Ribes odoratum); native west of Mississippi River, but naturalized further to the east
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2. NatureServe Explorer: Ribes aureum
NatureServe ExplorerGlobal rank (roundedGRank)
Quote, Global rank (roundedGRank)
"roundedGRank": "G5"
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3. UNEP-WCMC Species+ database (CITES Secretariat): Species+: Saxifragales
UNEP-WCMC Species+ database (CITES Secretariat)Species+ taxon_concepts, id 12402
Quote, Species+ taxon_concepts, id 12402
"active":true,"cites_listing":"NC"
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4. GBIF Backbone Taxonomy (IUCN Red List category): IUCN Red List category of Ribes aureum
GBIF Backbone Taxonomy (IUCN Red List category)iucnRedListCategory record
Quote, iucnRedListCategory record
"category": "NOT_EVALUATED"
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IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
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UNEP-WCMC Species+ database (CITES Secretariat): Species+: Ribes
UNEP-WCMC Species+ database (CITES Secretariat)Species+ taxon_concepts, id 12707
Quote, Species+ taxon_concepts, id 12707
"active":true,"cites_listing":"NC"
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Wikidata: Ribes aureum
Child Taxon Of: Saxifragales, Wikidata parent-taxon (P171) chainView the Source
Plants For A Future: Ribes aureum
Plants For A FutureIn Biome: Riparian Zone, Habitats
Quote, In Biome: Riparian Zone, Habitats
By streams, in ravines and on mountain slopes ... Rocky slopes and sandy bluffs
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