| Scientific Name: | Ribes divaricatum |
| Common Name: | coast black gooseberry, spreading gooseberry |
| Family Name: | Grossulariaceae |
| Origin: | B.C. west of Cascades, U.S. - northwest, U.S. - southwest |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 5: (-29 to -23 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Shrub - deciduous |
| Mature Size: | 1.3 - 2.0m x 1.5 - 2.0m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Arching, Spreading |
| Form: | Round |
| Texture: | Medium |
| Landscape Uses: | Native planting, Small garden/space, Spring interest, Urban agriculture, Waterside planting, Wildlife food |
| Exposure: | Full sun only if soil kept moist, Part sun/part shade, Filtered shade |
| Soil or Media: | Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Lobed, Alternate, Soft flexible, Heavily veined, Palmate venation, Lustrous, Pubescent, Orbicular, Ovate, Crenate, Dentate, Pinnately lobed |
| Flowers: | Flowers clustered, White, Apr-May |
| Fruit: | Berry (true), Edible, Purple, Black, Jul-Aug |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Shrub up to 3m tall, stems woody with one to three thick brown thorns at leaf nodes; leaves alternate, ovate-orbicular, most blades 3-6cm long and wide, palmate venation, 3-lobed with lower lobes again shallowly cleft into 2 unequal segments, base cordate, margins with small teeth; flowers pendulous, calyx lobes red to reddish-green and bent back towards pedicles (similar to fuchsia), petals white to red, 1.5-2.5 mm long, stamens long, white-pinkish; berries round, 6-10mm wide, black when ripe with a persistent calyx. Winter ID: (1-)3 reddish-brown spines at each node. | |