Ribes victoris |
Ribes sanguineum |
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Victor's gooseberry |
blood currant, flowering currant, red currant, red-flowering currant, redflower currant, winter currant |
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Habit | Plants 0.5–2 m. Stems erect, pubescent, stipitate-glandular; spines at nodes 1–3, 5–15 mm; prickles on internodes sparse. | Plants 1–4 m. Stems erect, finely pubescent, stipitate-glandular; spines at nodes absent; prickles on internodes absent. | ||||
Leaves | petiole 1.5–5 cm, pubescent, stipitate-glandular; blade round-ovate, 3–5-lobed, cleft 1/4–1/3 to midrib, 1.5–5 cm, base truncate to cordate, surfaces finely pubescent, stipitate-glandular, lobes rounded, margins with few shallow teeth, apex rounded. |
petiole 2–7 cm, puberulent, short stipitate-glandular; blade broadly reniform or cordate-orbiculate to deltate-ovate, nearly equally to irregularly 5-lobed, cleft nearly 1/4 to midrib, 2–7 cm, base subtruncate to cordate, surfaces puberulent to whitish-tomentose abaxially, puberulent adaxially or puberulent and colorless, sessile-glandular on both surfaces, lobes deltate to obtuse, margins finely 2–3 times crenate and denticulate or serrate, apex broadly acute. |
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Inflorescences | pendent, solitary flowers or 2-flowered racemes, 3–4 cm, axis pilose, stipitate-glandular. |
pendent to stiffly spreading or ascending or erect, 5–40-flowered racemes, 5–15 cm, axis crisped-pubescent and stipitate-glandular, flowers evenly spaced. |
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Pedicels | not jointed, 3–4 mm, pubescent, stipitate-glandular; bracts lanceolate-ovate, 2–3 mm, pubescent, stipitate-glandular. |
jointed, 5–10 mm, pubescent, stipitate-glandular; bracts oblanceolate or lanceolate, 2–12 mm, with scattered, short hairs and stalked glands. |
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Flowers | hypanthium greenish white, conic, as wide as long, 3 mm (1/4–1/3 as long as sepals), stipitate-glandular; sepals not overlapping, reflexed, white, pink-tinged at base, oblong-lanceolate, 6–11 mm; petals connivent, erect, white, oblong, inrolled, 3–5 mm; nectary disc not prominent; stamens 2 times as long as petals; filaments linear, ca. 6 mm, glabrous; anthers cream, lanceolate-sagittate, 3 mm, apex mucronate; ovary densely glandular, with longer glandless bristles; styles connate to middle, 9–11 mm, glabrous. |
hypanthium white, pink, rose, or red, tubular to campanulate, 3–7 mm, pubescent, stipitate-glandular; sepals not overlapping, spreading or reflexed, white, pink, or red, ovate-elliptic or oblong to oblanceolate or lanceolate, 4–5 mm; petals not or nearly connivent to connivent, erect, white or pink to red, obovate-spatulate to oblong or almost square, not conspicuously revolute or inrolled, 1–3.5 mm; nectary disc not prominent; stamens shorter than to as long as petals; filaments linear or slightly expanded at base, 1.2–2 mm, glabrous; anthers cream, oblong-oval, 0.5–0.8 mm, apex shallowly notched; ovary stipitate-glandular to strongly stipitate-glandular and crisped-puberulent; styles connate nearly to stigmas, 4–6 mm, glabrous or with scattered, stipitate glands at base. |
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Berries | palatability not known, golden yellow, globose, 8–10 mm, glandular-bristly. |
palatable but insipid, blue-black, glaucous, ovoid or globose, 3–9(–10) mm, yellowish or greenish stipitate-glandular. |
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2n | = 16. |
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Ribes victoris |
Ribes sanguineum |
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Phenology | Flowering Apr. | |||||
Habitat | Wooded canyon slopes | |||||
Elevation | 0-800 m (0-2600 ft) | |||||
Distribution |
CA
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CA; ID; OR; WA; BC [Introduced in c Europe]
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Discussion | Ribes victoris occurs in the counties around San Francisco Bay north to Sonoma and Lake counties. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Varieties 2 (2 in the flora). Ribes sanguineum is widely cultivated. It begins to bloom very early in the season, providing a nectar source for pollinators when little else is available. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Key |
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Source | FNA vol. 8, p. 32. | FNA vol. 8, p. 21. | ||||
Parent taxa | Grossulariaceae > Ribes | Grossulariaceae > Ribes | ||||
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Synonyms | Grossularia greeneiana, Grossularia victoris, R. victoris var. minus | |||||
Name authority | Greene: Pittonia 1: 224. 1888 , | Pursh: Fl. Amer. Sept. 1: 164. 1813 , | ||||
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