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PLANTS

Skunk currant

Ribes glandulosum

Plants
NativeShrubPerennial
Skunk currant, photo 1 of 5
Skunk currant, In flower
Skunk currant, In fruit
up to 0.5 mHeight

Perennial shrub reaching up to 0.5 m. Grows in forests and in thickets.

There are 6,455 observations of Skunk currant in Québec, mostly in Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Nord-du-Québec and Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean, and it has been reported in every region. They peak from May to July and become rare from October to April.

Through the year

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Where to see it

  1. Abitibi-Témiscamingue1,195
  2. Nord-du-Québec754
  3. Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean648
  4. Capitale-Nationale546
  5. Outaouais538
  6. Côte-Nord518
  7. Mauricie488
  8. Bas-Saint-Laurent405
  9. Laurentides382
  10. Gaspésie–Îles-de-la-Madeleine370
  11. Lanaudière202
  12. Chaudière-Appalaches192
  13. Estrie120
  14. Montérégie54
  15. Centre-du-Québec40
  16. Montréal2
  17. Laval1

Habitat

ForestMario Hains
ThicketsNicholas A. Tonelli
MarshVyacheslav Argenberg

Similar species

Cultivated currantRibes rubrum
Red currantRibes triste
Swamp currantRibes lacustre
Eastern prickly gooseberryRibes cynosbati
Northern black currantRibes hudsonianum
TOXIC
Guelder roseViburnum opulus
Wild black currantRibes americanum
Moose mapleAcer spicatum
Hairystem gooseberryRibes hirtellum
SquashberryViburnum edule
European black currantRibes nigrum
TOXIC
Red mapleAcer rubrum