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

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



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Ribes curvatum   FAMILY Grossulariaceae

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

Ribes curvatum

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 8 (2009)

Ribes curvatum

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

Grossularia curvata

 

COMMON NAME:
Granite Gooseberry


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image of Ribes curvatum, Granite Gooseberry

JK Marlow    jkm110417_087

April    Cleburne County    AL

Mount Cheaha

Leaves 3-5 lobed, irregularly toothed, per Native Shrubs and Woody Vines of the Southeast (Foote & Jones, 1989).

 

 

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

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Ribes curvatum   FAMILY Grossulariaceae

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

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 8
Ribes curvatum

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

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

3447

Shrub
Perennial

Habitat: Rocky upland and riparian forests and woodlands, bluffs, glade margins, per Weakley's Flora

Native to Georgia

Rare

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IS THE PLANT "ARMED"?
Armed with slender nodal spines

LEAVES:
Deciduous
Simple
Leaves palmately veined
Alternate

FLOWER:
Spring
White
Radially symmetrical
5-lobed calyx
5 petals
5 long-exserted stamens
Inferior ovary
Bisexual

Flowers solitary or in corymbs?racemes? of 2-4

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Greenish to reddish-purple
Berry

 

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