Alpine gooseberry
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Order: Saxifragales
Family: Grossulariaceae
Genus: Ribes
Species:
R. lasianthum
Binomial name
Ribes lasianthum
Synonyms[1][2][3][4]
  • Ribes lasianthum var. lasianthum (Greene) Jeps.
  • Ribes lasianthum subsp. lasianthum (Greene) A.E.Murray
  • Grossularia lasiantha (Greene) Coville & Britton

Ribes lasianthum is a species of currant known by the common names alpine gooseberry[5] and woolly-flowered gooseberry. It is native to California, where it can be found in the San Gabriel Mountains and the Sierra Nevada, its distribution extending just into Nevada.[6][7]

Ribes lasianthum grows in high mountain habitat, often in open areas. It is a spreading shrub growing one half to one meter (20-40 inches) in height. It has fuzzy, prickly stems, the nodes bearing spines up to a centimeter long. The hairy, glandular leaves are one to two centimeters long and divided into toothed lobes. The inflorescence is an erect raceme of two to four flowers, each less than a centimeters long. The flower has five yellow sepals which are reflexed away from the central corolla, a neat tube of yellow petals. Within the tube are five stamens and two styles. The fruit is a hairless red berry measuring 6 to 7 millimeters wide.[5]

References

  1. 1 2  Ribes lasianthum was originally described and published in Pittonia; a Series of Papers Relating to Botany and Botanists. 3: 22. 1896. Berkeley, California. "Plant Name Details for Ribes lasianthum". IPNI. Retrieved August 1, 2010.
  2. ↑  Ribes leptanthum variety lasianthum was published in Manual of the Flowering Plants of California, 472. 1925. "Plant Name Details for Ribes leptanthum var. lasianthum". IPNI. Retrieved August 1, 2010.
  3. ↑  Ribes leptanthum subspecies lasianthum was published in Kalmia; Botanic Journal. 12: 2. 1982. Levittown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. "Plant Name Details for Ribes leptanthum subsp. lasianthum". IPNI. Retrieved August 1, 2010.
  4. ↑  Grussularia lasiantha was published in North American Flora 22: 219. 1908. New York Botanical Garden. "Plant Name Details for Grossularia lasiantha". IPNI. Retrieved August 1, 2010.
  5. 1 2 Flora of North America, Ribes lasianthum
  6. ↑ Biota of North America Program 2014 county distribution map
  7. ↑ Calflora taxon report, University of California, Ribes lasianthum E. Greene alpine gooseberry
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