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shiny-leaf gooseberry, Sierra gooseberry, Sierran gooseberry

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Coast Ranges gooseberry, shiny-leaf gooseberry, Sierra gooseberry, spiny fruit gooseberry

Habit Plants 0.5–1.2 m. Stems erect, pubescent; spines at nodes 1–3, 4–8 mm; prickles on internodes absent.
Leaves

petiole 0.6–1.8 cm, pubescent;

blade roundish, 3–5-lobed, cleft 1/3–3/4 to midrib, 1.2–2.5 cm, base truncate to cordate, surfaces glabrous, softly ciliate, or puberulent or densely hoary-pubescent, not glandular abaxially, puberulent adaxially, lobes rounded, margins toothed, apex rounded.

blades abaxially glabrous (except for soft ciliation).

Inflorescences

pendent, solitary flowers or 2-flowered racemes, 2–4 cm, axis short-pubescent, stipitate-glandular.

Pedicels

not jointed, 1–2 mm, pubescent, stipitate-glandular;

bracts broadly ovate, 4–5 mm, pubescent, stipitate-glandular.

Flowers

hypanthium maroon, narrowly tubular, 6 mm (1/2 as long as sepals), glabrous, puberulent, or densely hoary-pubescent, not stipitate-glandular;

sepals not overlapping, reflexed, maroon, lanceolate, 7–10 mm;

petals connivent, erect, white, oblong, inrolled, 3–5 mm;

nectary disc not prominent;

stamens 1.5–2 times as long as petals;

filaments linear, 4–5 mm, glabrous;

anthers maroon, lanceolate, somewhat sagittate, 3–4 mm, apex apiculate;

ovary white-hairy and bristly, a few bristles gland-tipped;

styles connate nearly to middle, 9–11 mm, glabrous.

hypanthium glabrous;

sepals glabrous.

Berries

palatable, purple, globose, 14–25 mm, pubescent, stipitate-glandular, longer hairs not gland-tipped, with long, stout, glandular or eglandular spines.

with eglandular spines.

Ribes roezlii

Ribes roezlii var. cruentum

Phenology Flowering Mar–Jun.
Habitat Lowland gravel bars, roadsides, stream banks, canyon hillsides, subalpine ridges
Elevation 0-2300 m (0-7500 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
CA; NV; OR
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from FNA
CA; OR
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Discussion

Varieties 3 (3 in the flora).

Ribes roezlii occurs in the South Coast and North Coast ranges of California and adjacent Oregon and in the Sierra Nevada in California and adjacent Nevada.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)

Key
1. Leaf blades abaxially glabrous (except for soft ciliation); hypanthia and sepals glabrous.
var. cruentum
1. Leaf blades abaxially puberulent or densely hoary-pubescent; hypanthia and sepals puberulent or densely hoary-pubescent
→ 2
2. Spines on berries without glands; leaf blades abaxially puberulent; hypanthia and sepals puberulent.
var. roezlii
2. Spines on berries gland-tipped; leaf blades abaxially densely hoary-pubescent; hypanthia and sepals densely hoary-pubescent.
var. amictum
Source FNA vol. 8, p. 31. FNA vol. 8, p. 32.
Parent taxa Grossulariaceae > Ribes Grossulariaceae > Ribes > Ribes roezlii
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. divaricatum, 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. 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. roezlii var. amictum, R. roezlii var. roezlii
Subordinate taxa
R. roezlii var. amictum, R. roezlii var. cruentum, R. roezlii var. roezlii
Synonyms Grossularia roezlii R. cruentum, Grossularia cruenta
Name authority Regel: Gartenflora 28: 226, plate 982, figs. 1–3. 1879 (as roezli) , (Greene) Rehder: in L. H. Bailey, Stand. Cycl. Hort. 5: 2962. (1916)
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