Ribes lasianthum

Woolly-flowered gooseberry, Woolly-Flowered Gooseberry

Family: Grossulariaceae · Type: shrub · Native

Woolly-flowered gooseberry is a California native shrub found in the Sierra Nevada, San Gorgonio Mountains, and Peninsular Ranges in open, rocky areas at elevations of 1,520 to 3,000 meters. Flowering from June to July, this plant produces yellow flowers in small clusters of 2 to 4 blooms with delicate hypanthiums longer than they are wide. Growing as a compact shrub less than one meter tall, it features distinctive nodal spines and glandular-hairy leaves. Its leaf blades are small, measuring 1 to 2 centimeters long, with a textured surface covered in glandular hairs. The fruit develops as a small, nearly smooth red berry approximately 6 to 7 millimeters in diameter.

Habitat: Open, rocky areas

Bloom period: Jun-Jul

Elevation: 1520-3000 m

Bioregions: SNH, SnGb, PR

California counties: Los Angeles, Tulare, Alpine, Nevada, Mariposa, Amador, Fresno, Kern, Madera, Inyo, Placer, El Dorado, Tuolumne, San Diego, Calaveras, Mono, San Bernardino, Riverside, Sierra

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