Ribes divaricatum |
Ribes inerme |
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coast black gooseberry, coastal black gooseberry, spreading gooseberry, straggly currant, straggly gooseberry, wild black gooseberry |
currant, northern blackcurrant, white-stem gooseberry |
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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 1–3 m. Stems erect to sprawling, glabrous or sparsely retrorse-bristly when young and with black, sessile glands; spines at nodes sometimes absent or 1(–3), 1–8(–12) mm; prickles on internodes usually 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 (0.4–)1–5.5 cm, tomentose to pilose, with few longer, slender, stipitate-glandular hairs; blade broadly ovate or pentagonal, 3–5-lobed, cleft nearly 1/2 to midrib, sometimes lateral lobes again less deeply cut into larger distal and smaller proximal segments, 1.5–8 cm, base rounded to broadly cordate, surfaces glabrous, sparsely pubescent, or pilose-villous, usually ciliate, lobes acutish or oblong-rounded, margins deeply crenate-serrate or coarsely round-toothed, apex acute or rounded. |
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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 2–5-flowered racemes, 1.5–3.5 cm, axis glabrous, flowers evenly spaced. |
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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. |
not jointed, (1.5–)2.3–5.5(–8) mm, glabrous; bracts ovate, 1–3 mm, glandular-ciliolate. |
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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 green or greenish white, narrowly tubular to tubular-campanulate, 1.5–3.5 mm, glabrous or densely pilose to arachnoid-pubescent adaxially; sepals not overlapping, spreading to curved-reflexed (extended in fruit), white or greenish to purplish or reddish margined or tinged, oblong or oblong-lanceolate to narrowly lanceolate, 2.5–5 mm; petals connivent, erect, whitish or pinkish, broadly cuneate-obovate or cuneate-flabellate to cuneate or oblong, not conspicuously revolute or inrolled, 1–2.3 mm; nectary disc not prominent; stamens nearly 2 times as long as petals; filaments linear, 1.8–3.1 mm, mostly glabrous; anthers cream, ovate, 0.6–1.1 mm, apex with cup-shaped gland; ovary glabrous; styles connate 1/3–3/4 their lengths, 4.5–7 mm, proximally pilose-villous to middle or throughout. |
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Berries | palatable, purplish black, subglobose, 6–12 mm, glabrous. |
palatable, greenish or reddish purple to gray-black, nearly globose or globose, 7–11 mm, glabrous. |
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2n | = 16. |
= 16. |
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Ribes divaricatum |
Ribes inerme |
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Distribution |
CA; OR; WA; BC
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AZ; CA; CO; ID; MT; NM; NV; OR; 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 inerme has strikingly pilose-villous styles that are sometimes green proximally and reddish distally, with the stigmas sometimes dark green. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 8, p. 38. | FNA vol. 8, p. 35. | ||||||||||||
Parent taxa | Grossulariaceae > Ribes | Grossulariaceae > Ribes | ||||||||||||
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Synonyms | Grossularia divaricata | Grossularia inermis, R. divaricatum var. inerme | ||||||||||||
Name authority | Douglas: Trans. Hort. Soc. London 7: 515. 1830 , | Rydberg: Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 1: 202. (1900) | ||||||||||||
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