Mountain Currant
Scientific name: Ribes alpinum L.
Diagnostic features
Shrub to 2m, sometimes pendent on rock-faces.
Leaves 2-5cm, sparsely pubescent, not scented.
Flowers in ± erect racemes, dioecious, the female fewer per raceme, 1.5-3mm across, greenish-yellow, glabrous to sparsely pubescent.
Berry 6-10mm across, red.
Chromosome number: (2n=16).
Habitat
Native; limestone woods, often on rocks or cliffs, also an escape in other shady places.
Distribution
Native for certain only North Wales and North England, common only in Peak District, widespread as escape in Britain except extreme North & South.
This species is keyed out on Page 2784 in the Text Key. |
