Wildlife
Golden currant
Ribes aureum
Habitat
At Three Forks in 1805, Narrows of Columbia 1806
Conservation
Secure
One of several currant species described by Lewis. Small, sweet fruits with tiny seeds pounded into meat for pemmican.
Journal References
15 journal entries mention Golden currant
Aug
2
1805
Lewis: August 2, 1805
... to be excellent the courrant grows very
much like the red currant common to the gardens in the atlantic states tho
the leaf is somewhat different and the growth tal...
Aug
3
1805
Lewis: August 3, 1805
...leafed or small willow, the small honeysuckle,
rosebushes, currant, serviceberry, and goosbery bushes; also a small
species of berth in but small quantities the leaf...
Aug
4
1805
Lewis: August 4, 1805
...er and
appears as if it might be navigated some miles. the currant is not rapid
nor the water very clear; the banks are low and the bed formed of stone
and gravel. ...
Aug
11
1805
Lewis: August 11, 1805
...d. the principal growth is willow with the
narrow leaf and Currant bushes. they encamped this evening on the upper
point of a large Island near the Stard. shore.-
Aug
13
1805
Lewis: August 13, 1805
..., also the red willow Choke Cherry service
berry and a few currant bushes such as were common on the Missouri. these
people had been attacked by the Minetares of For...
Aug
16
1805
Lewis: August 16, 1805
...catiring small pine
on the hills. willow service berry and currant bushes were the growth of
the river bottoms. they geatherd considerable quantities of service
ber...
Aug
23
1805
Lewis: August 23, 1805
...re than ten days. the bends of the river are short and the
currant beats from side to side against the rocks with great violence. the
river is about 100 yds. wide an...
Mar
13
1806
Lewis: March 13, 1806
...r. they resemble very much at a little
distance the common currants of our gardens but are more yellow. this fish
is sometimes red along the sides and belley near th...
Apr
2
1806
Lewis: April 2, 1806
...large leafed thorn has also
disappeared. the red flowering currant is found here in considerable
quantities on the uplands. the hunters inform me that there are exte...
Apr
10
1806
Lewis: April 10, 1806
...iver which is here about 400 yds. wide the
rapidity of the currant was such that it boar us down a considerable
distance notwithstanding we employed five oars. on en...
Apr
12
1806
Lewis: April 12, 1806
...f maple, the purple haw, a small
speceis of cherry; purple currant, goosberry, red willow, vining and white
burry honeysuckle, huckkle burry, sacacommis, two speceis...
Apr
16
1806
Lewis: April 16, 1806
...ngers to me which I also preserved, among others there is a currant
which is now in blume and has yellow blossom something like the yellow
currant of the Missouri bu...
Apr
30
1806
Lewis: April 30, 1806
...he crimson haw,
redwillow, sweetwillow, chokecherry yellow currants, goosberry,
whiteberryed honeysuckle rose bushes, seven bark, and shoemate. I observed
the corng...
Jul
10
1806
Lewis: July 10, 1806
...ndant of
the common red kind and are begining to ripen. no currants on this river.
both species of the prickly pears just in blume.
Jul
12
1806
Lewis: July 12, 1806
...ly 1805 saw the brown thrush, pigeons, doves &c.
the yellow Currants begining to ripen.