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2024 has been a banner year for making the best flora we can imagine. We've created:
- Keys with embedded images of diagnostic features
- Clickable glossary terms with illustrated definitions
- FloraQuest: Carolinas & Georgia mobile app
- Heliophily and Wetland Statuses
- Direct links to Flora of North America
- 17,730 new high quality diagnostic photos and counting
With financial support from people like you, we are aiming even higher in 2025. Together we can accomplish all this: Vote on our 2025 priorities
- Add Global Conservation Ranks (GRanks) vote
- Professional graphic keys (polyclaves) to individual families/genera vote
- 2 new FloraQuest apps: Florida & Mid-South vote
- Image overlays highlighting diagnostic characters with arrows vote
- iNaturalist integration in FloraQuest vote
We've set a goal of recruiting 200 ongoing supporters to donate $15 or more each month in 2025. Please help us reach this goal and make next year's flora even better:
| Family | Scientific Name | Common Name | Habitat | Distribution | Image |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grossulariaceae | Ribes americanum | American Black Currant | Bottomland forests, other moist forests, marl marshes. | NS west to AB, south to w. VA, WV, e. and nc. KY (Clark et al. 2005), ne. TN, IN, NE, and NM. Minney & Landsman (2018) reported the rediscovery of the species in MD. |  |
| Grossulariaceae | Ribes aureum var. villosum | Buffalo Currant, Golden Currant | Calcareous bluffs and glades, also disturbed areas, meadows. | MA, ON, MN, ND, and MT south to MD, TN, AR, TX, and NM; the original eastward extent unclear because of occasional cultivation and naturalization. It is reported as occurring as a native species as far east as Montgomery County in nc. TN (Chester, Wofford, & Kral 1997). |  |
| Grossulariaceae | Ribes curvatum | Granite Gooseberry | Rocky upland and riparian forests and woodlands, bluffs, glade margins; in TX in blackland prairie margins, moist forests over limestone, dry sandy woodlands. | E. TN, AR, and OK south to GA, AL, LA, and TX. Also reported for NC by Sinnott (1985); the specimens came from cultivated plants in a botanist’s garden, so there is no evidence that R. curvatum is a native or naturalized component of NC’s flora. |  |
| Grossulariaceae | Ribes cynosbati | Prickly Gooseberry, Dogberry | Moist slopes, periglacial boulderfields, talus, grassy balds, especially at medium to high elevations. | NB, ON, MN, and ND south to w. NC, e. TN, n. GA, n. AL, AR, and OK. |  |
| Grossulariaceae | Ribes echinellum | Miccosukee Gooseberry | Mesic, nutrient-rich forests. | This species has a remarkable range, known only from a small area of McCormick County, SC and the vicinity of Lake Miccosukee, Jefferson and Gadsden Counties, FL. |  |
| Grossulariaceae | Ribes glandulosum | Skunk Currant, Mountain Currant | Periglacial boulderfields, high elevation seeps, spruce-fir forests. | NL (Newfoundland) west to AK, south to VT, MI, MN, and BC, and in the Appalachians south to w. NC and e. TN. |  |
| Grossulariaceae | Ribes hirtellum | Northern Gooseberry | Rocky forests. | NL (Newfoundland) west to AB, south to WV (Tucker County), n. NJ, s. PA, OH, IN, IL, IA, and NE. |  |
| Grossulariaceae | Ribes lacustre | Bristly Black Currant, Spiny Swamp Currant | Forests, acid swamps. | NL (Labrador) to AK, south to MA, PA, w. VA, TN (allegedly), n. OH, MI, MN, SD, CO, UT, and CA. |  |
| Grossulariaceae | Ribes missouriense | Missouri Gooseberry | Dry to mesic upland forests and woodlands, riparian forests, stream banks, bluffs, old fields, fencerows. | W. WV, sw. OH, IN, WI, MN, and e. ND south to KY, e. TN (Roane and Grainger counties), s. IL, MO, n. AR, and KS, with scattered occurrences (perhaps escapes from cultivation) eastwards in CT, NJ, PA, MD, VA, and WV. |  |
| Grossulariaceae | Ribes nigrum | Garden Black Currant, Cassis | Cultivated in gardens, perhaps escaping. | Native of Europe; cultivated in ne. United States, rarely as far south as our area (in MD and NJ according to FNA); it may escape. |  |
| Grossulariaceae | Ribes oxyacanthoides var. oxyacanthoides | Northern Gooseberry | Dry to moist forests and woodlands. | NS west to AK, south to QC, ON, MI, WI, MN, SD, WY, and BC. |  |
| Grossulariaceae | Ribes rotundifolium | Appalachian Gooseberry | Moist slopes, balds, boulderfields, rocky forests, seepage swamps, shrub balds, mostly at high elevations south of VA. | An Appalachian endemic: MA, CO, and NY south to w. NC and e. TN. Reports from Oconee County, SC are based on cultivated material. |  |
| Grossulariaceae | Ribes rubrum | Garden Red Currant | Persistent from cultivation and escaped to adjacent fence-rows and disturbed areas. | Native of Europe. |  |
| Grossulariaceae | Ribes triste | Swamp Red Currant, Wild Red Currant | Boggy forests, seepage wetlands. | NL (Labrador) west to AK, south to MD, WV (Mineral, Pocahontas, and Randolph counties), OH, MN, SD, MT, ID, and OR. |  |
| Grossulariaceae | Ribes uva-crispa | Garden Gooseberry, European Gooseberry | Fencerows, disturbed areas. | Native of Europe. Cultivated in ne. United States. |  |