Editing Ribes americanum (section)

== Description ==

The plant is usually a 0.5–1.5 m multi-stemmed shrub; the USDA NRCS guide separately reports a 3–6 ft range. Stems are spineless and glandular. Leaves have resin glands beneath them, and the flowers hang in racemes; Missouri field material describes clusters of 6–15 flowers.<sup id="cite_ref-2">[[#cite_note-2|[2]]]</sup><sup id="cite_ref-3">[[#cite_note-3|[3]]]</sup> The fruit is a smooth, black, ovoid berry about 10 mm across, borne in drooping clusters and containing numerous seeds.<sup>[[#cite_note-2|[2]]]</sup><sup>[[#cite_note-3|[3]]]</sup>

Native settings include swamps, stream banks, wet meadows, fens, moist ravines, canyons, and open woods from low elevations to about 1700 m. That distribution points to a plant of cool, seasonally variable sites with dependable soil moisture, not a shrub that normally depends on arid exposure.<sup>[[#cite_note-2|[2]]]</sup>