. California range brushlands and browse plants. Browse (Animal food); Brush; Forage plants. Distribution of wax currant (Ribes cereum) and sticky flowering currant (Ribes viscosissimum). portant because of its local abundance and its rather large amount of leafage. It is readily cropped by sheep, goats, and deer, particularly in the fall before the first killing frost, after which the foilage turns dark. It also serves as a forage variant of some importance on summer cattle range. Browse rating. Fair to poor for sheep and goats; fair to useless for deer; poor for cattle; and poor to useless f
. California range brushlands and browse plants. Browse (Animal food); Brush; Forage plants. Distribution of wax currant (Ribes cereum) and sticky flowering currant (Ribes viscosissimum). portant because of its local abundance and its rather large amount of leafage. It is readily cropped by sheep, goats, and deer, particularly in the fall before the first killing frost, after which the foilage turns dark. It also serves as a forage variant of some importance on summer cattle range. Browse rating. Fair to poor for sheep and goats; fair to useless for deer; poor for cattle; and poor to useless for horses. wax currant (Ribes cereum) (drawing on page 73). Low, rigidly and intricately branched, deciduous shrub, 2 to 8 feet high, with smooth gray or brown bark on old branches, finely hairy on young shoots; spineless. Leaves fragrant, clustered on short spur-like branches, or scattered on younger twigs, roundish, obscurely 3 to 5-lobed, Vi inch to 1 inch broad, glossy above, hairy and glandular beneath, margins finely toothed. Flowers white, cream-colored, or pinkish, 2 to 8 in short droop- ing clusters; June to July. Berries bright red, % inch wide, slightly glandular hairy when young, becoming smooth in age; maturing from August to October. Distribution (map on this page). Wax currant is more widely distributed in California than sticky flowering currant. The range of these species overlaps in the Sierra Nevada but wax currant extends into southern Cali- fornia. Also, where the ranges overlap, wax currant is usually more abundant. It OCCUTS on lower mountain slopes and upwards to the Arctic Alpine Life Zone in the Siena Nevada from Tulare to Plumas counties; in the Warner Mountains in Modoc County, Mount Shasta, Siskiyou County; the higher mountains of Mono and Inyo counties; Mount Pinos in Ventura County; and in the San Gabriel, San Bernardino, San Jacinto, and Santa Rosa mountains. It extends eastward to the Rocky Mountains and northward to British Columbia. Economic v
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