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Plant - summer Lynx Lake
Sue Smith | Leaves Watson Woods
Sue Smith | Flowers Forest Trails
Doug McMillan | Flowers Forest Trails
Doug McMillan | Fruit Forest Trails
Doug McMillan | |
Origin: Native Similar Species: Ribes cereum
General Description: Deciduous. A densely branched, erect, long-lived and fast growing shrub. Attracts bees, flies, butterflies and hummingbirds. Drops leaves in a drought.
Identification notes: Stems erect, spineless, mostly hairless. Leaves mostly 3-lobed to 2 inches wide. Sepals bright yellow, hairless; sepal tube cylindric to 3/4 inch long. Petals yellow or becoming orange, to 1/8 inch long. Ovary hairless. Berries are mostly black or red.
Height: 3 to 6 feet Width: 3 to 6 feet
Habitat Description: Moist canyons, along streams, under tall trees on floodplains and upland moisture catchments. Indicator of shallow groundwater.
Plant Communities: Riparian
Elevation: 4000 - 6000 feet
Color: Yellow Shape: Regular in elongated clusters
Tubular: Y Flowering Period: Mar - Jun
Description: Flowers are in 2 inch long clusters of 5 to 18 flowers. The golden yellow flowers are trumpet-shaped with a spicy fragrance, sepals are 2 to 3 times longer than spreading yellow petals, stamens are about equal to the petals in length.
Leaf Color: Green Type: Simple Shape: Triangular Margin: Lobed Attachment: Alternate Hairs: N
Description: Leaves are wedge-shaped, 1 to 2 inches long, 3-lobed with a few coarse teeth near the ends of the lobes, somewhat thickened, glossy green above and paler below.
Color: Yellow, red, purple or black Type: Berry-like Description: Marble-sized fruits vary in color, ranging from yellow to orange when fresh and red to black to purplish-black when ripe.
Bark Color: Gray, reddish-orange Bark Texture (Mature): Rough Bark and Branch Description: Numerous raised lenticels. Twigs moderately stout and stiff with no spines. Young branches without hairs, light brown to reddish-orange, gray with age.
Spines, thorns or prickles: N |
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