Ribes sericeum
Lucia gooseberry
Family GrossulariaceaeAlso called Santa Lucia gooseberry
About
Ribes sericeum, the Santa Lucia gooseberry, is a bristly, spiny gooseberry endemic to California's Santa Lucia Mountains, with one outlying population in Santa Barbara County.
Care at a glance
- Pet safety
- Not recorded. We have no source on whether this plant is safe for cats, dogs or other pets — that is not the same as safe. Keep it out of reach until you have checked.
- People
- Not recorded.
- Mature size
- 1–2 m (40–80 in) tall.
Field notes
Morphology
An erect shrub 1–2 m tall with densely hairy stems covered in prickles and glandular bristles, and three spines over 1 cm at each node. Leaves up to 4 cm long are several-lobed, toothed, hairy and glandular, especially beneath. Flowers are borne singly or in racemes of two or three.
Distribution & habitat
Endemic to California: the Santa Lucia Mountains of the Central Coast, plus an isolated population in Santa Barbara County, on streambanks in forest and scrub.
History & etymology
The epithet sericeum means silky.
Habitat
- Altitude
- Not recorded
- Altitude class
- —
- Native to
- United States
Cultivation
- Difficulty
- Not recorded
Text adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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