Ribes divaricatum |
Ribes cereum |
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coast black gooseberry, coastal black gooseberry, spreading gooseberry, straggly currant, straggly gooseberry, wild black gooseberry |
squaw currant, stink currant, wax currant, white currant |
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Habit | Plants 1–3 m. Stems erect to spreading, ± pubescent throughout; spines at nodes absent or 1–3, 5–20 mm; prickles on internodes absent or sparse. | Plants 0.2–2 m. Stems spreading or arching to erect, puberulent, sparsely to copiously stipitate-glandular; spines at nodes absent; prickles on internodes absent. | ||||||||||||
Leaves | petiole 1–3 cm, pilose with glandular and eglandular hairs, some plumose hairs at base; blade roundish to nearly reniform, 3- (or 5-)lobed, cleft 1/2 to midrib, proximal segments again shallowly cleft into 2 unequal lobes, 2–3.5 cm, base rounded to cordate, surfaces pubescent abaxially, subglabrous or finely pubescent adaxially, lobes cuneate, margins prominently crenate-serrate, apex rounded. |
petiole (0.3–) 0.6–1.2(–2.8) cm, glabrous or finely to copiously pubescent; blade almost reniform to broadly cuneate-flabellate, 3–5(–7)-lobed, shallowly cleft, (0.5–) 1–2(–4) cm, base cordate to truncate, surfaces glabrous or copiously pubescent, sparsely stipitate-glandular to downy to conspicuously stipitate-glandular and sessile-glandular, particularly noticeable on margins, lobes rounded, margins coarsely crenate-dentate, apex obtuse. |
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Inflorescences | pendent, solitary flowers or 2–4-flowered racemes, 2–4 cm, axis glabrous or pilose, flowers evenly spaced. |
pendent, solitary flowers or 2–8(–9)-flowered racemes, 1–3 cm, axis finely pubescent, ± sticky with short-stalked to subsessile glands, flowers tightly clustered at end of peduncle. |
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Pedicels | not jointed, 3–12 mm, glabrous or pilose; bracts oval, 1–2 mm, glabrous or ciliate with stiff hairs and glands. |
jointed, (0.4–)1–2.2(–3.4) mm, puberulent; bracts flabellate or ovate to obovate, 3–7(–8.8) mm, pubescent, stipitate-glandular. |
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Flowers | hypanthium greenish or purplish, obconic, 1.5–3.5 mm, glabrous or copiously pubescent; sepals not overlapping, spreading-reflexed, red or reddish or purplish green, narrowly oblong-deltate, 3.4–6 mm; petals distally nearly connivent to overlapping, erect, white or pink to red, cuneate-lunate to obovate, not conspicuously revolute or inrolled, 1.2–3 mm; nectary disc not prominent; stamens 2.5–3.5 times as long as petals; filaments linear, 3.5–7 mm, glabrous; anthers cream, oval, 1 mm, apex rounded; ovary glabrous; styles connate ca. 1/2 their lengths, 5–11 mm, copiously pilose-villous in proximal 3/4. |
hypanthium white to greenish white with pink tinge, or pinkish white, narrowly tubular, tube widest at base and near throat, 5–9(–9.4) mm, densely hairy and scattered stipitate-glandular abaxially, glabrous adaxially; sepals not overlapping, spreading-recurved, greenish white to white or faintly to strongly pinkish tinged, deltate-ovate, 1–3.2 mm; petals connivent, erect, white to pink, orbiculate or flabellate, not conspicuously revolute or inrolled, 1–2.1 mm; nectary disc not prominent; stamens shorter than petals, (inserted below petals and completely included in hypanthium tube); filaments linear, 0.5–1.6 mm, glabrous; anthers pale cream-yellow to yellow, oval, 0.6–1.2 mm, apex with small, cup-shaped gland; ovary glabrous or hairy or sparsely to densely pubescent; styles connate nearly to stigmas, 7.5–11.5 mm, proximally hairy or glabrous. |
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Berries | palatable, purplish black, subglobose, 6–12 mm, glabrous. |
tasteless, dull to bright red or orange-red, ovoid, 5–12 mm, sparsely glandular to glandular. |
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2n | = 16. |
= 16. |
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Ribes divaricatum |
Ribes cereum |
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Distribution |
CA; OR; WA; BC
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AZ; CA; CO; ID; MT; ND; NE; NM; NV; OK; OR; SD; UT; WA; WY; AB; BC
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Discussion | Varieties 3 (3 in the flora). Hybrids between Ribes divaricatum and R. niveum and R. divaricatum and R. lobbii have been propagated for the horticultural trade. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Varieties 2 (2 in the flora). Ribes cereum has a notably spicy odor. The bright green style, which becomes brown with age, is striking. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 8, p. 38. | FNA vol. 8, p. 22. | ||||||||||||
Parent taxa | Grossulariaceae > Ribes | Grossulariaceae > Ribes | ||||||||||||
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Synonyms | Grossularia divaricata | |||||||||||||
Name authority | Douglas: Trans. Hort. Soc. London 7: 515. 1830 , | Douglas: Trans. Hort. Soc. London 7: 512. (1830) | ||||||||||||
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