Ribes divaricatum

Family: Grossulariaceae · Type: shrub · Native

spreading gooseberry is a California native shrub found in coastal and north-central California regions in woodland and chaparral habitats. Flowering from March to May, this plant produces white to pink flowers with purple sepals, small and delicate in clusters of up to five blooms. Growing with arched stems 1 to 3.5 meters tall and featuring occasional nodal spines, it develops a distinctive branching structure. Its leaves are 2 to 6 centimeters wide, coarsely toothed, generally hairy, and somewhat rounded. The fruit is a glossy black berry 6 to 10 millimeters in diameter, which ripens in late summer.

California counties: Sonoma, San Luis Obispo, Lake, Humboldt, Santa Barbara, Napa, Alameda, Monterey, Contra Costa, Siskiyou, San Mateo, Tulare, Santa Cruz, Nevada, Plumas, Santa Clara, Trinity, Marin, Los Angeles, Placer, Shasta

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