Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Grossularia oxyacanthoides (L.) Mill. Gard. Diet
ed. 8. no. 4. 1768.
Ribes oxyacanthoides L. Sp. PI. 201, 1753.
A low shrub the older branches usually very bristly, the young twigs rarely without bristles, pubescent or glabrate ; nodal spines subulate, rather stout, mostly 1 cm, long or less. Iveaves suborbicular in outline or somewhat broader than long, incisely 5-lobed and dentate or crenate-dentate. Z-A cm. wide, cordate to broadly cuneate at the base, more or less pubescent and with some glandular hairs, at least on the petioles, usually rugose at maturity ; peduncles very short, scarcely exserted from the bud-scales, mostly 1-2-flowered ; pedicels short ; ovary glabrous ; hypanthium greenish-^fhite, glabrous ; sepals white, glabrous, 2.5-4 mm. long, a little longer than the hypanthium ; petals obovate, about as long as the stamens, about two thirds the length of the sepals; berry globose, smooth, about 1 cm. in diameter.
Type locality : Canada.
Distribution : Hudson Bay to Yukon, British Columbia, Alberta, Montana, North Dakota, and northern Michigan.
- bibliographic citation
- Frederick Vernon Coville, Nathaniel Lord Britton, Henry Allan Gleason, John Kunkel Small, Charles Louis Pollard, Per Axel Rydberg. 1908. GROSSULARIACEAE, PLATANACEAE, CROSSOSOMATACEAE, CONNARACEAE, CALYCANTHACEAE, and ROSACEAE (pars). North American flora. vol 22(3). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
