Gooseberry Currant syn. Alpine Prickly Currant
Ribes  montigenum
 Grossulariaceae (Currant Family)

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Road South West of Guardsman Pass, Salt Lake County, Utah
13 June 2014

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Road South West of Guardsman Pass, Salt Lake County, Utah
13 June 2014

flower


Road South West of Guardsman Pass, Salt Lake County, Utah
13 June 2014

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Road South West of Guardsman Pass, Salt Lake County, Utah
13 June 2014

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Road South West of Guardsman Pass, Salt Lake County, Utah
13 June 2014

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Guardsman Pass, Salt Lake County, Utah
2 September 2013
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Guardsman Pass, Salt Lake County, Utah
2 September 2013
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Guardsman Pass, Salt Lake County, Utah
2 September 2013
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Guardsman Pass, Salt Lake County, Utah
2 September 2013
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Guardsman Pass, Salt Lake County, Utah
2 September 2013
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Guardsman Pass, Salt Lake County, Utah
2 September 2013
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September 6, 2005 - Albion Basin, Salt Lake County, Utah



Photo Details - ©Nicky Davis

September 2, 2013 - Guardsman Pass, Salt Lake County, Utah -2774 meters (9102 feet)
September 6, 2005 - Albion Basin, Salt Lake County, Utah
Also located along trail north of Guardsman Pass that goes up toward Jupiter Hill - July 1, 2014

Characteristics "A Utah Flora Fourth Edition, revised" Stanley L. Welsh, N. Duane Atwood, Sherel Goodrich, and Larry C. Higgins, Brigham Young University.
syn. Gooseberry Currant
2-7 dm (
8- 27 inches) tall, leaves are .4-3.7 cm(.14-1.46 inches) long, .6-5 cm (.24-1.97 inches) wide usually 5-lobed with the loves again lobed or toothed, branchlets are armed with 1-5 nodal spines, internodal bristles lacking or present.  Racemes 3-8 flowered, petals about 1 mm (.039 inches) long pinkish or pink purple, berries 5-10 mm (.196-.39 inches) long, red, stipitate-glandular. 

Other locations reported
UVU - Mount Timpanogos, northern slopes of the mountain at the base of 11383 ft peak, along FR 056, ca. 3 road miles West of Timpooneke Campground; 40° 25' 44" N,  111° 40' 21" W; 8138 ft; 2481 m.

UVU Ridge top, North of Mt. Nebo, Nebo Basin Trail,  11139 ft.; 3396 m.  T12S, R2E, Sec. 1;

Habitat  per "A Utah Flora"  Spruce-fir, Douglas fir, lodgepole pine, bristlecone pine, aspen, krummholz, sagebruch-snowberry and sedge-grass communities and often in talus and scree slopes.

Host plant for
Hoary Comma Butterfly

Tailed Copper

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