Spreading Gooseberry

Grossularia divaricata (Dougl.) Coville & Britton
Ribes divartcaium Dougl. Trans. Hort. Soc. London 7 : 515. 1830.
Ribes villosum Nutt. in T. & G. Fl. N, Am. 1 : 547. 1840. Not R. villosum Roxb. 1824.
Ribes tomeniosum K. Koch, Wochenschr. Gart. & Pfl. 2 : 138. 1859.
Ribes divaricatum glahrifiorum Koehne, Deuts. Dendr. 200. 1893.
Ribes divaricatum pubijiorumKoehne, Deuts. Dendr. 200. 1893.
Ribes divaricatum. villosum Zabel, Handb. Laubh. Deuts. Dendr. Ges. 137. 1903.
Ribes Suksdorfii Heller, Muhlenbergia 3 : 11. 1907.
Ribes divaricatum. Douglasii Jancz. M^m. Soc. Gen&ve 35 : 391. 1907.
Ribes divaricatum m.ontanum, Jancz. M^m. Soc. Geneve 35 : 391. 1907.
A much-branched shrub, 2-3.5 m. high, the branches sometimes bristly, but commonly without bristles, gray to ftrown ; nodal spines stout, 1-2 cm. long, often deflexed, sometimes wanting. Leaves thin, suborbicular or reniform -orbicular in outline, 2-6 cm. wide, mostly 5-lobed, sometimes 3-lobed, coarsely crenate-dentate, cordate to subtruncate at the base, the upper surface usually bearing some long hairs, the under side short-hairy along the veins or glabrous, the slender pubescent or glabrous petioles as long as the blades or shorter ; peduncles slender, about as long as the petioles, drooping, 2-4-flowered ; bracts ovate, much shorter than the filiform pedicels ; ovary glabrous ; hypanthium campanulate, 2-3 mm. long, greenish-purple, glabrous or sparingly villous ; sepals oblong, purplish or greenish, 2-3 times as long as the hypanthium ; petals obovate, white or purplish, less than half as long as the sepals ; stamens somewhat longer thg.n the sepals ; style villous ; berry smooth, globular, black or dark-purple, about 1 cm. in diameter.
Type locality : Northwest coast of North America. Distribution ; British Columbia to middle California.

Grossularia irrigua (Dougl.) Coville & Britton
Ribes irriguum Dougl. Trans. Hort. Soc. London 7 : 516. 1830.
Ribes divaricatum irriguu-m A. Gray, Am. Nat. 10; 273. 1876.
Rtbes leucoderme Heller, Bull. Torrey Club 24 : 93. 1897.
Ribes oxyacanihoides leucoderme Jancz. M^m. Soc. Geneve 35 : 388. 1907.
A shrub 1-3 m. high, the older branches usually bristly, gray to brown, the young shoots often without bristles, pale-gray, pubescent or rarely glabrous ; nodal spines subulate, usually about 1 cm. long. Leaves thin, 3-5-lobed, coarsely incised-dentate, 3-7 cm. wide, mostly cordate at the base, nearly or quite glabrous above, more or less pubescent and minutely glandular beneath, the villous and glandular-pubescent petioles as long as the blades or shorter ; peduncles nodding, 1-3-flowered, shorter than the leaves ; bracts ciliate and glandular, about as long as the short pedicels ; ovary glabrous ; hypanthium greenish, glabrous, cylindric-campanulate, 3^ mm. long ; sepals greenish-white, 5-8 mm. long ; petals obovate, white, about half as long as the sepals ; stamens about as long as the petals; style pubescent below; berry globose, smooth, 7-13 mm. in diameter. Type locality : On the Blue Mountains, in lat. 46° 33'.
Distribution: Eastern Oregon and Washington, interior of British Columbia, Idaho, and western Montana.

Ribes divaricatum is a species in the genus Ribes found in the forests, woodlands, and coastal scrub of western North America from British Columbia to California. The three accepted varieties have various common names which include the word "gooseberry". Other common names include coast black gooseberry, wild gooseberry, Worcesterberry, or spreading-branched gooseberry.