Ribes erythrocarpum is an uncommon North American species of currant known by the common name Crater Lake currant.
Description Ribes erythrocarpum is a trailing shrub with vertical branches up to tall. The leaves are wide, 3–5 lobed, with rounded teeth.
It produces copper- or salmon-colored flowers and scarlet egg-shaped berries.Flora of North America, Ribes erythrocarpum Coville & Leiberg, 1896. Crater Lake currantCoville, Frederick Vernon & Leiberg, John Bernhard 1896. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 10(23): 131-132
Ribes laxiflorum is similar.
Distribution and habitat It is native to the Cascade Mountains in the US State of Oregon, including inside Crater Lake National Park.Biota of North America Program 2014 county distribution mapTurner Photographics, Wildflowers of the Pacific Northwest, Ribes erythrocarpum, Crater Lake Currant photos, description, distribution mapElizabeth L. Horn. 2005. The botanists at Crater Lake National Park. Kalmiopsis 12: 30-36 includes line drawings of Ribes erythrocarpum and other species It grows on rocky sloped ground in subalpine forests.
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