Taxon: Ribes aureum Pursh var. villosum DC.

See other conspecific taxa:

• Ribes aureum (6 accessions)
• Ribes aureum var. aureum (15 accessions)
• Ribes aureum var. gracillimum (1 accessions)

Common names:

• buffalo currant   (Source: Dict Gard [as R. odoratum]) – English
  
• clove currant   (Source: Dict Gard [as R. odoratum]) – English
  
• Missouri currant   (Source: Dict Gard [as R. odoratum]) – English
  
• groseillier doré   (Source: Zander Ency [as R. odoratum]) – French
  
• wohlriechende Johannisbeere   (Source: Zander Ency [as R. odoratum]) – German
  
• doftrips   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

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see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Krussmann, as R. odoratum)
  
• Human food: fruit   (fide Cornucopia, as Ribes odoratum)
  
• Gene sources: graft stock for black currant   (fide Eur Gard F, as R. odoratum)
  

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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
  Northeastern U.S.A.: United States - Connecticut, Indiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Vermont, West Virginia
  North-Central U.S.A.: United States - Illinois, Iowa [w.], Kansas, Minnesota [s.w.], Missouri [s.], Nebraska, North Dakota [w.], Oklahoma, South Dakota, Wisconsin
  Northwestern U.S.A.: United States - Colorado, Montana, Wyoming
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Arkansas, Tennessee
  South-Central U.S.A.: United States - New Mexico, Texas

• NORTHERN AMERICA (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
  United States [e.]

• EUROPE
  East Europe: Russian Federation - European part
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Canada
  United States [also cult.]

• exact native range obscure

References:

• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• Cronquist, A. et al. 1972–. Intermountain flora. [mentions].
• Diggs, G. M., Jr. et al. 1999. Shinner's and Mahler's illustrated flora of North Central Texas.
• Encke, F. et al. 1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage.
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
• Hummer, K. E. & D. L. Barney. 2002. Currants. HortTechnol. 12:377–387.
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening. [= R. odoratum J. C. Wendl.].
• Jones, G. N. & G. D. Fuller. 1955. Vascular plants of Illinois. [= R. odoratum J. C. Wendl.].
• Kartesz, J. T. 1994. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland.
• Krüssmann, G. 1984. Manual of cultivated broad-leaved trees and shrubs (English translation of Handbuch der Laubgehölze. 1976). [= R. odoratum J. C. Wendl.].
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Yatskievych, G. & J. Turner. 1990. Catalogue of the flora of Missouri. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 37. [= R. odoratum J. C. Wendl.].

Synonyms:

• (=) Ribes odoratum H. L. Wendl.
  (previously associated with 30 accessions)

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

• 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. villosum 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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