OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

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

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



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Ribes rotundifolium   FAMILY Grossulariaceae

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

Ribes rotundifolium

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America

Ribes rotundifolium

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 094-02-002:

Ribes rotundifolium   FAMILY Saxifragaceae

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

Grossularia rotundifolia

 

COMMON NAME:
Roundleaf Gooseberry, Appalachian Gooseberry


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image of Ribes rotundifolium, Roundleaf Gooseberry, Appalachian Gooseberry

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_grro4_001_lvd

        

image of Ribes rotundifolium, Roundleaf Gooseberry, Appalachian Gooseberry

JK Marlow    jkm080421_072

April    Haywood County    NC

Corneille Bryan Native Garden

Leaves 1-5cm long and wide, serrate with rounded teeth, per Weakley's Flora (2015).

image of Ribes rotundifolium, Roundleaf Gooseberry, Appalachian Gooseberry

JK Marlow    jkm080421_076

April    Haywood County    NC

Corneille Bryan Native Garden

Small to medium, erect or spreading shrub 2-5' tall, per Wildflowers & Plant Communities of the Southern Appalachian Mountains and Piedmont (Spira, 2011).

image of Ribes rotundifolium, Roundleaf Gooseberry, Appalachian Gooseberry

JK Marlow    jkm160516_703

May    Haywood County    NC

Corneille Bryan Native Garden

Leaves roundish in general outline, palmately veined and lobed, per Wildflowers & Plant Communities of the Southern Appalachian Mountains and Piedmont (Spira, 2011).

image of Ribes rotundifolium, Roundleaf Gooseberry, Appalachian Gooseberry

JK Marlow    jkm160516_710

May    Haywood County    NC

Corneille Bryan Native Garden

Berry smooth, glabrous, 8-12mm in diameter, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).

image of Ribes rotundifolium, Roundleaf Gooseberry, Appalachian Gooseberry

JK Marlow    jkm160516_712

May    Haywood County    NC

Corneille Bryan Native Garden

image of Ribes rotundifolium, Roundleaf Gooseberry, Appalachian Gooseberry

JK Marlow    jkm160516_715

May    Haywood County    NC

Corneille Bryan Native Garden

Internodes usually glabrous, nodal spines 3-8mm or absent. Petioles puberulent, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).

image of Ribes rotundifolium, Roundleaf Gooseberry, Appalachian Gooseberry

Keith Bradley    kab_r_rotundifolium_5418

May    Avery County    NC

Blue Ridge Parkway

Green to reddish sepals, white to pinkish petals, and protruding stamens, per Wildflowers & Plant Communities of the Southern Appalachian Mountains and Piedmont (Spira, 2011).

image of Ribes rotundifolium, Roundleaf Gooseberry, Appalachian Gooseberry

JK Marlow    jkm0407t_18

July    Mitchell County    NC

The Roan Highlands

 

 

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

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Ribes rotundifolium   FAMILY Grossulariaceae

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

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America
Ribes rotundifolium

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 094-02-002:
Ribes rotundifolium   FAMILY Saxifragaceae

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

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

1248

Shrub
Perennial

Habitat: Moist slopes, balds, boulderfields, rocky forests, seepage swamps, shrub balds, mostly at high elevations south of VA, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas

Common in NC Mountains

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IS THE PLANT "ARMED"?
Armed with slender nodal spines; internodal prickles absent

LEAVES:
Deciduous
Simple
Leaves palmately veined
Alternate

FLOWER:
Spring
Green to reddish sepals, white to pinkish petals
Radially symmetrical
5-lobed calyx
5 petals
5 long-exserted stamens
Inferior ovary
Bisexual

Flowers usually solitary

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Berry

 

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