Forest Trails
Doug McMillan
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Forest Trails
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Plant Description

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

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


Flowers

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.


Leaves

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.


Fruit

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/Branches

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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