Ribes leptanthum
Credits
Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles
Recommended citation
'Ribes leptanthum' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.
Genus
Infraspecifics
Other taxa in genus
- Ribes alpinum
- Ribes ambiguum
- Ribes americanum
- Ribes × beatonii
- Ribes bracteosum
- Ribes cereum
- Ribes ciliatum
- Ribes curvatum
- Ribes diacanthum
- Ribes fasciculatum
- Ribes gayanum
- Ribes glandulosum
- Ribes henryi
- Ribes lacustre
- Ribes laurifolium
- Ribes lobbii
- Ribes longeracemosum
- Ribes maximowiczii
- Ribes menziesii
- Ribes mogollonicum
- Ribes nigrum
- Ribes niveum
- Ribes odoratum
- Ribes orientale
- Ribes pinetorum
- Ribes roezlii
- Ribes rubrum
- Ribes sanguineum
- Ribes speciosum
- Ribes tenue
- Ribes uva-crispa
- Ribes valdivianum
- Ribes viburnifolium
A deciduous spiny shrub 3 to 6 ft high, with slightly downy, occasionally glandular-bristly young branches; spines usually slender, solitary, up to 1⁄2 in. long. Leaves roundish or somewhat kidney-shaped, 1⁄4 to 3⁄4 in. wide, deeply three- or five-lobed, toothed, the base mostly truncate; stalk as long as the blade, downy at the base. Flowers white tinged with pink, one to three on a short stalk; receptacle cylindrical, the sepals downy, ultimately reflexed. Fruits oval, shining, blackish red, slightly downy or glabrous.
Native of Colorado, New Mexico, etc.; one of the prettiest and daintiest of gooseberries, the branches being slender and densely clothed with tiny leaves. Introduced in 1893.
R quercetorum Greene
Synonyms
R. leptanthum var. quercetorum (Greene) Jancz