Grossulariaceae FAMILY

Ribes cereum

Edibility

3/5

Medicinal

2/5

Safety & Hazards

None known

Botanical Description

Ribes cereum is a deciduous shrub of rounded, compact habit. The stems can be spreading or arching to erect; the plant growing 20 - 200cm tall[ 270 Title Flora of N. America Publication Author Website http://flora.huh.harvard.edu/fna/ Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description An on-line version of the flora with an excellent description of the plant including a brief mention of plant uses. ]. The plant is harvested from the wild for local use as a food and sometimes as a medicine. Selected forms are sometimes cultivated as a fruit crop[ 62 Title A Field Guide to N. American Edible Wild Plants. Publication Author Elias. T. and Dykeman. P. Publisher Van Nostrand Reinhold Year 1982 ISBN 0442222009 Description Very readable. ], and the plant is also grown as an ornamental.

Habitat & Origin

Origintemperate

Native RangeWestern N. America - British Colmbia and Alberta, south to California, Arizona, New Mexico and Oklahoma

HabitatCanyons, dry ravines, hillsides, prairies and open woodland[ 62 Title A Field Guide to N. American Edible Wild Plants. Publication Author Elias. T. and Dykeman. P. Publisher Van Nostrand Reinhold Year 1982 ISBN 0442222009 Description Very readable. ]. Open forests, dry shrublands, rocky slopes, cliffs; at elevations from 100 - 4,000 metres[ 270 Title Flora of N. America Publication Author Website http://flora.huh.harvard.edu/fna/ Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description An on-line version of the flora with an excellent description of the plant including a brief mention of plant uses. ].