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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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

2n

= 16.

= 16.

Ribes divaricatum

Ribes inerme

Distribution
from FNA
CA; OR; WA; BC
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from FNA
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.)

Key
1. Petals 1.2-1.7 mm, white; styles 5-7 mm; fila- ments 3.5-4.7(-5) mm.
var. pubiflorum
1. Petals 2-3 mm, white or pink to red; styles 8-11 mm; filaments 4.5-7 mm
→ 2
2. Petals white; hypanthia 1.7-2.5 mm.
var. divaricatum
2. Petals pink to red; hypanthia 2.8-3.5 mm.
var. parishii
1. Sepals glabrous; leaf blades glabrous (except for soft ciliation) or sparsely pubescent; peduncles 5-12 mm
var. inerme
1. Sepals pilose; leaf blades pilose-villous; peduncles 10-15 mm.
var. klamathense
Source FNA vol. 8, p. 38. FNA vol. 8, p. 35.
Parent taxa Grossulariaceae > Ribes Grossulariaceae > Ribes
Sibling taxa
R. acerifolium, R. amarum, R. americanum, R. aureum, R. binominatum, R. bracteosum, R. californicum, R. canthariforme, R. cereum, R. curvatum, R. cynosbati, R. diacanthum, R. echinellum, R. erythrocarpum, R. glandulosum, R. hirtellum, R. hudsonianum, R. indecorum, R. inerme, R. lacustre, R. lasianthum, R. laxiflorum, R. leptanthum, R. lobbii, R. malvaceum, R. marshallii, R. menziesii, R. mescalerium, R. missouriense, R. montigenum, R. nevadaense, R. nigrum, R. niveum, R. oxyacanthoides, R. pinetorum, R. quercetorum, R. roezlii, R. rotundifolium, R. rubrum, R. sanguineum, R. sericeum, R. speciosum, R. thacherianum, R. triste, R. tularense, R. uva-crispa, R. velutinum, R. viburnifolium, R. victoris, R. viscosissimum, R. watsonianum, R. wolfii
R. acerifolium, R. amarum, R. americanum, R. aureum, R. binominatum, R. bracteosum, R. californicum, R. canthariforme, R. cereum, R. curvatum, R. cynosbati, R. diacanthum, R. divaricatum, R. echinellum, R. erythrocarpum, R. glandulosum, R. hirtellum, R. hudsonianum, R. indecorum, R. lacustre, R. lasianthum, R. laxiflorum, R. leptanthum, R. lobbii, R. malvaceum, R. marshallii, R. menziesii, R. mescalerium, R. missouriense, R. montigenum, R. nevadaense, R. nigrum, R. niveum, R. oxyacanthoides, R. pinetorum, R. quercetorum, R. roezlii, R. rotundifolium, R. rubrum, R. sanguineum, R. sericeum, R. speciosum, R. thacherianum, R. triste, R. tularense, R. uva-crispa, R. velutinum, R. viburnifolium, R. victoris, R. viscosissimum, R. watsonianum, R. wolfii
Subordinate taxa
R. divaricatum var. divaricatum, R. divaricatum var. parishii, R. divaricatum var. pubiflorum
R. inerme var. inerme, R. inerme var. klamathense
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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