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Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Saxifragales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Ribes uva-crispa   FAMILY Grossulariaceae   Go to FSUS key



INCLUDING PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Ribes uva-crispa var. sativum   FAMILY Grossulariaceae

INCLUDING Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Ribes uva-crispa var. sativum

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 8 (2009)

Ribes uva-crispa

INCLUDING Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)

Ribes uva-crispa var. sativum

SYNONYMOUS WITH Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)

Ribes grossularia

 

COMMON NAME:
Garden Gooseberry, European Gooseberry


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image of Ribes uva-crispa, Garden Gooseberry, European Gooseberry

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_grre2_001_lvd

        

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Ribes uva-crispa   FAMILY Grossulariaceae

INCLUDING PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Ribes uva-crispa var. sativum   FAMILY Grossulariaceae

INCLUDING Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Ribes uva-crispa var. sativum

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 8
Ribes uva-crispa

INCLUDING Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Ribes uva-crispa var. sativum

SYNONYMOUS WITH Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Ribes grossularia

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

4961

Shrub
Perennial

Habitat: Fencerows, disturbed areas, per Weakley's Flora

Non-native: Europe

Waif(s)

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IS THE PLANT "ARMED"?
Armed with strong, stiff nodal spines, often 3-parted on robust stems

LEAVES:
Deciduous
Simple
Leaves palmately veined
Alternate

FLOWER:
Spring
Green to pink sepals, white petals
Radially symmetrical
5-lobed calyx
5 petals
5 long-exserted stamens
Inferior ovary
Bisexual

Flowers solitary or in corymbs?racemes? of 2-3

FRUIT:
Greenish to yellow or red
Berry

 

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