§1 Plant — species · Grossulariaceae
Ribes cereum Douglas
vernacular wax currant
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Shrub
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Grossulariaceae DC.
- Genus
- Ribes
§2a
Native status, by region
- CAN Canada Native
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- High
- Shade
- High
- Moisture use
- Low
- Fire
- High
- Salinity
- None
- Anaerobic
- None
- CaCO₃
- High
- Hedging
- High
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- -23 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 300 min.
- Precipitation
- 13–35 in/yr
- pH range
- 6.5–7.5
- Root depth
- 12 in min.
- Fertility need
- Low
- Soil texture
- coarse, medium
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Multiple Stem
- Growth rate
- Rapid
- Lifespan
- Moderate
- Mature height
- 3 ft
- Height @ 20 y
- 3 ft
- Foliage texture
- Coarse
- Foliage colour
- Dark Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Dense
- Porosity (winter)
- Porous
- Flower colour
- White
- Fruit colour
- Red
- Fire resistant
- Yes
- N fixation
- None
- Toxicity
- None
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Early Summer
- Seed abundance
- High
- Seed begins
- Spring
- Seed ends
- Fall
- Spread rate
- Moderate
- Stratify
- Yes
- Seeds / lb
- 277,500
- Propagation
- cuttings, bare root, container, corm
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- Routinely Available
- Nursery stock
- Yes
- Browse palatability
- High
- Graze palatability
- High
- Palatable, human
- Yes
- Protein potential
- High
- Lumber
- No
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Montana distribution
Recorded in 30 of 56 Montana counties.
Native · 30 counties
- Beaverhead 30001
- Big Horn 30003
- Broadwater 30007
- Carbon 30009
- Carter 30011
- Cascade 30013
- Custer 30017
- Dawson 30021
- Fallon 30025
- Fergus 30027
- Flathead 30029
- Gallatin 30031
- Garfield 30033
- Jefferson 30043
- Judith Basin 30045
- Lake 30047
- Lewis and Clark 30049
- Missoula 30063
- Musselshell 30065
- Park 30067
- Petroleum 30069
- Phillips 30071
- Powell 30077
- Rosebud 30087
- Sanders 30089
- Stillwater 30095
- Sweet Grass 30097
- Teton 30099
- Valley 30105
- Yellowstone 30111
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/RICE ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/2986127 ↗Record version
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