Ribes watsonianum |
Ribes acerifolium |
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Mount Adams gooseberry, spiny gooseberry, spring gooseberry, wastson gooseberry, Watson gooseberry, Watson's gooseberry |
maple-leaf blackcurrant, maple-leaf currant |
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Habit | Plants 1–2 m. Stems ascending to erect, copiously grayish-hairy and abundantly stipitate-glandular, very slightly if at all bristly; spines at nodes 1 or 3, 3–7(–10) mm; prickles on internodes absent. | Plants 0.5–1 m. Stems spreading to erect, finely puberulent, often thickly sprinkled with small, nearly sessile to rather strongly stipitate glands; spines at nodes absent; prickles on internodes absent. |
Leaves | petiole 2–4 cm, puberulent to pubescent, stipitate-glandular; blade broadly triangular, 3–5-lobed, cleft less than 1/2 to midrib, again 2–5 cleft, 2–5 cm, base truncate or cordate, surfaces thickly puberulent to pubescent, stipitate-glandular, lobes broad, rounded, margins coarsely crenate-denticulate, apex rounded. |
petiole 2–5.5 cm, pubescent, stipitate-glandular; blade orbiculate, lobed into 3 main and 2 smaller segments, cleft 1/2 to midrib, 3–8 cm, base deeply cordate, surfaces puberulent and stipitate-glandular abaxially, glabrous adaxially, lobes ovate-deltate, margins 2 times crenate-serrate, apex acute. |
Inflorescences | pendent, solitary flowers or 2(–3)-flowered racemes, 2–4 cm, axis pubescent, stipitate-glandular. |
pendent, 7–15-flowered racemes, 3–5 cm, axis crisped-puberulent, stipitate-glandular, flowers evenly spaced. |
Pedicels | not jointed, 2–3 mm, pubescent, stipitate-glandular; bracts deltate, 2–3 mm, pubescent, stipitate-glandular. |
jointed, 2–8 mm, crisped-puberulent, stipitate-glandular; bracts lanceolate, 6–8 mm, crisped-puberulent, stipitate-glandular. |
Flowers | hypanthium greenish or with some reddish tinge, tubular-campanulate, 2.5–3 mm, finely pilose, sparingly glandular; sepals not overlapping, reflexed, cream suffused with pink, narrowly oblong, 5.5–9 mm; petals connivent, erect, white, pinkish proximally, oblong, not conspicuously revolute or inrolled, 3.5–4 mm; nectary disc not prominent; stamens as long as or slightly longer than petals; filaments linear, 2–3 mm, glabrous; anthers white, oblong, 0.8–1.2 mm, apex rounded; ovary densely glandular-bristly; styles connate 3/4 their lengths, 6 mm, glabrous. |
hypanthium greenish white with pinkish tinge, shallowly bowl-shaped, 1–1.5 mm, crisped-puberulent, stipitate-glandular; sepals nearly overlapping, spreading, tips usually recurved, pinkish or white streaked with pink, broadly oblong-ovate to nearly deltate-obovate, 2–3 mm; petals very slightly connate or distinct, spreading with sepals, rose-red, obovate-cuneate, (inwardly pouched and nearly keeled in center), 1–1.5 mm; nectary disc greenish or cream, raised, angled, covering ovary; stamens nearly as long as petals; filaments oblong, 1 mm, glabrous; anthers cream, oval, 0.2–0.3 mm, apex acute; ovary finely crisped-puberulent; styles connate 3/4 their lengths, 0.7–1 mm, glabrous. |
Berries | palatability not known, reddish, subglobose, 10 mm, densely yellowish-spiny. |
palatability not known, gray-black, spheric, to 10 mm, slightly pubescent, sparsely glandular. |
Ribes watsonianum |
Ribes acerifolium |
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Phenology | Flowering May–Jul. | Flowering Jun–Aug. |
Habitat | Canyons, ridges | Montane to alpine stream banks, meadow thickets, open ridges |
Elevation | 1300-2200 m (4300-7200 ft) | 900-2200 m (3000-7200 ft) |
Distribution |
OR; WA; AB; BC
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ID; OR; WA; BC
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Discussion | Ribes watsonianum occurs in the Cascade Range of Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia, and in Alberta. Analysis of combined datasets of ITS, ETS, psbA-trnH, and chloroplast restriction sites placed R. watsonianum as sister to sect. Grossularia (L. M. Schultheis and M. J. Donoghue 2004). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Ribes acerifolium K. Koch (1869), which was believed to block the use of R. acerifolium Howell, was not validly published. Consequently, the name R. howellii Greene, proposed as a substitute name, is superfluous; it appears in many floras and on many herbarium specimens. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 8, p. 34. | FNA vol. 8, p. 25. |
Parent taxa | Grossulariaceae > Ribes | Grossulariaceae > Ribes |
Sibling taxa | ||
Synonyms | Grossularia watsoniana | |
Name authority | Koehne: Deut. Dendrol., 197. 1893 , | Howell: Erythea 3: 34. 1895 , |
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