(Wolf’s Currant)
Ribes wolfii, Lower Cataract Lake, Summit Co. 1202
Ribes wolfii, FR 612, Lone Cone Area, San Miguel Co. 3536
Ribes wolfii, FR 612, Lone Cone Area, San Miguel Co. 3545
Ribes wolfii, Booth Falls Trail, Eagle Co. 4286
Ribes wolfii, FR 612, Lone Cone Area, San Miguel Co. 3543
| Scientific Name | Ribes wolfii | USDA PLANTS Symbol | RIWO |
| Common Name | Wolf's Currant | ITIS Taxonomic Serial No. | 24512 |
| Family | Grossulariaceae (Gooseberry) | SEINet Reference |
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| Description |
Life zones and habitat: Foothills to subalpine (7000 to 11000 ft); moist meadows, streamsides, and aspen forests. Plant: Deciduous shrub 1.5 to 10 feet tall, spreading or erect, unarmed branches, grayish, becoming reddish to dark brown with age. Leaves: Alternate, nearly orbicular in outline, 1/2 to 2-3/8 inches long, 1/2 to 3-1/2 inches wide with 3 to 5 broadly triangular lobes, green and smooth or slightly pubescent above, pale green with prominent veins below, margins irregularly toothed; petioles 1/4 to 1-3/4 inches long. Inflorecence: Dense racemes of 7 to 25 small white flowers with short elliptic-lanceolate bracts below; each flower with a greenish, glandular-hairy cup-shaped hypanthium and 5 flaring off-white calyx lobes or sepals 1/8 to 1/16-inch long; 5 smaller off-white to yellowish green or pinkish petals and 5 stamens about the same length. Bloom Period: May to August. Fruit: Black, ovoid berries 1/4-inch across. References: "Flora of Colorado" by Jennifer Ackerfield and SEINet. |
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Colorado Status: Native |
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