Ribes californicum

Hillside gooseberry, Hillside Gooseberry

Family: Grossulariaceae · Type: shrub · Native

Hillside gooseberry is a California native shrub found in chaparral and woodland habitats, typically growing at moderate elevations. Flowering from March to May, this plant produces white flowers with delicate curled petals and green to red sepals about 6 to 8 millimeters long. Growing to less than 1.5 meters tall, the shrub features distinctive nodal spines with generally glabrous internodes. Its leaves are relatively small, measuring 1 to 3 centimeters across, and typically lack glandular surfaces. The fruit develops as a red berry approximately 9 to 10 millimeters in diameter, adorned with short glandular bristles.

California counties: Los Angeles, Lake, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Mendocino, Marin, Alameda, Contra Costa, Monterey, Kern, San Luis Obispo, Amador, San Benito, Napa, Sonoma, Ventura, Santa Barbara, Riverside, San Bernardino, Orange, Plumas, Shasta, Modoc, Butte, Sierra, Nevada, Santa Cruz

Data from The California Species Project — 14,000+ California species with verified data from CNPS, CDFW, USFWS, Jepson eFlora, Cal-IPC, and more.