Ribes divaricatum
Ribes rubrum
coast black gooseberry, straggly gooseberry
northern red currant
Leaves alternate, palmately veined, broadly ovate, 2-6 cm. wide, rounded to cordate at the base, with rounded serrations, tri-lobed over half their length, the lower sections often shallowly cleft into 2 lobes.
Inflorescence of 2- to 3-flowered, drooping, slender racemes, shorter than the leaves;
pedicels slender, 5-10 mm. long;
calyx red to reddish-green, glabrous to pubescent, the calyx tube conic, 2.5 mm. long, the 5 lobes narrowly oblong, 5-7 mm. long, recurved;
petals 5, white to red, obovate, 1.5-2.5 mm. long;
stamens 5, longer than the calyx lobes;
styles 2, fused half their length, the fused half villous;
ovary inferior.
Berry globose, smooth, purplish-black, about 1 cm. long.
Ribes divaricatum
Ribes rubrum
Occurring chiefly west of the Cascades crest and along the Columbia River Gorge in Washington; British Columbia to California.
Occurring chiefly east of the Cascades crest in the eastern counties of Washington; British Columbia to Oregon, east to Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming, also from the Great Lakes region east to the Atlantic Coast.
- Local floras:
BC, 
CA, 
OR, 
WA - Local Web sites: CalFlora, CalPhotos,
Flora NW, 
PNW Herbaria, Turner Photog. 
WildflowerSearch
iNaturalist (observations)
USDA Plants Database- LBJ Wildflower Center
- SEINet
- Plants of the World Online
- Encyclopedia of Life
- Wikipedia
- Google Image Search
