NameThatPlant.net: Ribes curvatum

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

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Ribes curvatum FAMILY Grossulariaceae Go to FSUS key

Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Ribes curvatum FAMILY Grossulariaceae

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

Ribes curvatum

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America

Ribes curvatum

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Grossularia curvata

COMMON NAME:
Granite Gooseberry

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image of Ribes curvatum, Granite Gooseberry

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April Cleburne County AL

Mount Cheaha

Leaves 3-5 lobed, irregularly toothed, per Native Shrubs and Woody Vines of the Southeast (Foote & Jones, 1989).

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Ribes curvatum FAMILY Grossulariaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Ribes curvatum FAMILY Grossulariaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Ribes curvatum

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America
Ribes curvatum

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Grossularia curvata

3447

Shrub
Perennial

Habitat: Rocky upland and riparian forests and woodlands, bluffs, glade margins, per Weakley's Flora

Native to Georgia

Rare

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IS THE PLANT "ARMED"?
Armed with slender nodal spines

LEAVES:
Deciduous
Simple
Alternate

FLOWER:
Spring
Yellowish-green?
Bisexual
Radially symmetrical
5-lobed calyx
5 petals
5 stamens
Inferior ovary

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Berry

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