Ribes triste
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Ribes triste, known as the northern redcurrant,[1] swamp redcurrant, or wild redcurrant,[2] is an Asian and North American shrub in the gooseberry family.
Description
It grows to Template:Convert tall, with a lax, often creeping branches. The leaves are alternate, Template:Convert across, hairy below, and palmate with 3–5 lobes.[3]
From June to July, 6–13 small, purplish flowers are displayed in pendulous racemes, Template:Cvt long. The axis of the raceme is glandular. The fruit is a bright red berry, without the hairs that some currants have; it is rather sour.[4]
Distribution and habitat
Ribes triste is widespread across Canada and the northern United States, as well as in eastern Asia (Russia, China, Korea, Japan).[5][6] It grows in wet rocky woods, swamps, and cliffs.[3]
As a weed
Ribes is listed a plant pest in Michigan and the planting of it in certain parts of the state is prohibited.[7]
Conservation
It is listed as endangered in Connecticut[8] and Ohio, and as threatened in Pennsylvania.[7]
Uses
Culinary
The berries are edible.[3] Alaska Natives eat them raw and make them into jam and jellies.[9] Eskimos eat the berries[10] and the Inupiat eat them raw or cooked, mix them with other berries which are used to make a traditional dessert. They also mix the berries with rosehips and highbush cranberries and boil them into a syrup.[11] The Iroquois mash the fruit, make them into small cakes, and store them for future use. They later soak the fruit cakes in warm water and cooked them a sauce or mixed them with corn bread. They also sun dry or fire dry the raw or cooked fruit for future use and take the dried fruit with them as a hunting food.[12] The Ojibwe eat the berries raw, and also preserve them by cooking them, spreading them on birch bark into little cakes, which are dried and stored for winter use.Template:Sfn In the winter, they often eat the berries with cooked sweet corn. They also use the berries to make jams and preserves.Template:Sfn The Upper Tanana eat the berries as food.Template:Sfn
Medicinal
The Ojibwe take a decoction of the root and stalk for kidney stones ('gravel')Template:Sfn and a compound decoction of the stalk to curtail menstruation;Template:Sfn the leaves are used as a 'female remedy'.Template:Sfn The Upper Tanana use a decoction of the stems without the bark as a wash for sore eyes.Template:Sfn
References
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Bibliography
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