Ribes lasianthum

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Alpine gooseberry
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Order: Saxifragales
Family: Grossulariaceae
Genus: Ribes
Species:R. lasianthum
Binomial name
Ribes lasianthum
Greene 1896 [1]
Synonyms [1] [2] [3] [4]
  • Ribes lasianthum var. lasianthum(Greene) Jeps.
  • Ribes lasianthum subsp. lasianthum(Greene) A.E.Murray
  • Grossularia lasiantha(Greene) Coville & Britton

Ribes lasianthum is a species of currant known by the common names alpine gooseberry [5] and woolly-flowered gooseberry. It is native to California, where it can be found in the San Gabriel Mountains and the Sierra Nevada, its distribution extending just into Nevada. [6] [7]

<i>Ribes</i> genus of plants

Ribes is a genus of about 150 known species of flowering plants native throughout the temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere. It is usually treated as the only genus in the family Grossulariaceae, but a few taxonomists place the gooseberry species in a separate genus of Grossularia. Sometimes Ribes is instead included in the family Saxifragaceae.

California State of the United States of America

California is a state in the Pacific Region of the United States. With 39.6 million residents, California is the most populous U.S. state and the third-largest by area. The state capital is Sacramento. The Greater Los Angeles Area and the San Francisco Bay Area are the nation's second- and fifth-most populous urban regions, with 18.7 million and 9.7 million residents respectively. Los Angeles is California's most populous city, and the country's second-most populous, after New York City. California also has the nation's most populous county, Los Angeles County, and its largest county by area, San Bernardino County. The City and County of San Francisco is both the country's second-most densely populated major city after New York City and the fifth-most densely populated county, behind only four of the five New York City boroughs.

San Gabriel Mountains mountain range in Los Angeles and San Bernardino Counties, California

The San Gabriel Mountains are a mountain range located in northern Los Angeles County and western San Bernardino County, California, United States. The mountain range is part of the Transverse Ranges and lies between the Los Angeles Basin and the Mojave Desert, with Interstate 5 to the west and Interstate 15 to the east. This range lies in, and is surrounded by, the Angeles National Forest, with the San Andreas Fault as the northern border of the range.

Ribes lasianthum grows in high mountain habitat, often in open areas. It is a spreading shrub growing one half to one meter (20-40 inches) in height. It has fuzzy, prickly stems, the nodes bearing spines up to a centimeter long. The hairy, glandular leaves are one to two centimeters long and divided into toothed lobes. The inflorescence is an erect raceme of two to four flowers, each less than a centimeters long. The flower has five yellow sepals which are reflexed away from the central corolla, a neat tube of yellow petals. Within the tube are five stamens and two styles. The fruit is a hairless red berry measuring 6 to 7 millimeters wide. [5]

Shrub type of plant

A shrub or bush is a small- to medium-sized woody plant. Unlike herbaceous plants, shrubs have persistent woody stems above the ground. They are distinguished from trees by their multiple stems and shorter height, and are usually under 6 m (20 ft) tall. Plants of many species may grow either into shrubs or trees, depending on their growing conditions. Small, low shrubs, generally less than 2 m (6.6 ft) tall, such as lavender, periwinkle and most small garden varieties of rose, are often termed "subshrubs".

Inflorescence Term used in botany to describe a cluster of flowers

An inflorescence is a group or cluster of flowers arranged on a stem that is composed of a main branch or a complicated arrangement of branches. Morphologically, it is the modified part of the shoot of seed plants where flowers are formed. The modifications can involve the length and the nature of the internodes and the phyllotaxis, as well as variations in the proportions, compressions, swellings, adnations, connations and reduction of main and secondary axes. Inflorescence can also be defined as the reproductive portion of a plant that bears a cluster of flowers in a specific pattern.

A raceme is an unbranched, indeterminate type of inflorescence bearing pedicellate flowers along its axis. In botany, an axis means a shoot, in this case one bearing the flowers. In indeterminate inflorescence-like racemes, the oldest flowers are borne towards the base and new flowers are produced as the shoot grows, with no predetermined growth limit. A plant that flowers on a showy raceme may have this reflected in its scientific name, e.g. Cimicifuga racemosa. A compound raceme, also called a panicle, has a branching main axis. Examples of racemes occur on mustard and radish plants.

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References

  1. 1 2  Ribes lasianthum was originally described and published in Pittonia; a Series of Papers Relating to Botany and Botanists. 3: 22. 1896. Berkeley, California. "Plant Name Details for Ribes lasianthum". IPNI . Retrieved August 1, 2010.
  2. ↑  Ribes leptanthum variety lasianthum was published in Manual of the Flowering Plants of California, 472. 1925. "Plant Name Details for Ribes leptanthum var. lasianthum". IPNI. Retrieved August 1, 2010.
  3. ↑  Ribes leptanthum subspecies lasianthum was published in Kalmia; Botanic Journal. 12: 2. 1982. Levittown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. "Plant Name Details for Ribes leptanthum subsp. lasianthum". IPNI. Retrieved August 1, 2010.
  4. ↑  Grussularia lasiantha was published in North American Flora 22: 219. 1908. New York Botanical Garden. "Plant Name Details for Grossularia lasiantha". IPNI. Retrieved August 1, 2010.
  5. 1 2 Flora of North America, Ribes lasianthum
  6. ↑ Biota of North America Program 2014 county distribution map
  7. ↑ Calflora taxon report, University of California, Ribes lasianthum E. Greene alpine gooseberry


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