Taxon: Ribes aureum Pursh var. aureum

See other conspecific taxa:

• Ribes aureum (6 accessions)
• Ribes aureum var. gracillimum (1 accessions)
• Ribes aureum var. villosum (28 accessions)

Common names:

• gadellier doré   (Source: F NAmer ) – English
  
• golden currant   (Source: Intermt F ) – English
  
• Gold-Johannisbeere   (Source: Zander Ency ) – German
  

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see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Dict Gard; Krussmann)
  
• Environmental: revegetator   (for land reclamation fide L. Gilbert, pers. comm. 1998)
  
• Human food: fruit   (fide Cornucopia; F Utah ed2)
  
• Gene sources: high yields for currant   (fide Keep 1975)
  

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View ethnobotanical data from Moerman's Native American Ethnobotany Database

Distributional range:

• NORTHERN AMERICA (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
  Eastern Canada: Canada - Ontario [s.], Quebec [s.]
  Western Canada: Canada - Alberta [s.], Saskatchewan [s.w.]
  North-Central U.S.A.: United States - South Dakota [w.]
  Northwestern U.S.A.: United States - Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Oregon [e. & c.], Washington [e. & c.], Wyoming
  South-Central U.S.A.: United States - New Mexico, Texas
  Southwestern U.S.A.: United States - Arizona, California, Nevada, Utah

• also cultivated

References:

• Allred, Kelly W. 2008. Flora Neomexicana I: The vascular plants of New Mexico, an annotated checklist to the names of vascular plants with synonymy and bibliography.
• Cronquist, A. et al. 1972–. Intermountain flora.
• Encke, F. et al. 1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage. [= R. aureum].
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
• Facciola, S. 1990. Cornucopia, a source book of edible plants.
• Gilbert, L. 1998. pers. comm. [re. English common names].
• Hickman, J. C., ed. 1993. The Jepson manual: higher plants of California.
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening.
• Kartesz, J. T. 1994. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland.
• Keep, E. 1975. Currants and gooseberries. In: Janick, J. & J. N. Moore, eds., Advances in fruit breeding. 245. [= R. aureum].
• Krüssmann, G. 1984. Manual of cultivated broad-leaved trees and shrubs (English translation of Handbuch der Laubgehölze. 1976). [= R. aureum].
• Kunkel, G. 1984. Plants for human consumption. [= R. aureum].
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Welsh, S. L. et al. 1993. A Utah flora.

Synonyms:

• (=) Ribes tenuiflorum Lindl.
  

Check other web resources for Ribes aureum Pursh var. aureum:

• Flora of North America: Collaborative Floristic Effort of North American Botanists
• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ICRA: International Cultivar Registration Authority (on-line resource). for Ribes aureum var. aureum cultivars

Images:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.

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• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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