| 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: | 2 - 3m x 2 - 3m (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, 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 lobed with palmate venation, margins with small teeth, blades up to 6cm long; florets pendulous, calyx lobes red to reddish-green and bent back towards pedicles (similar to fuchsia), petals white and encircling long stamens that are white to pinkish; berries are black when ripe with a persistent calyx, up to 1cm wide. | |