Ribes curvatum

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Family:GROSSULARIACEAE
Species:Ribes curvatum Small
Common Name:Drooping Gooseberry; Granite Gooseberry
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Growth Habit:Shrub
Duration:Perennial
Category:Vascular
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Plant Notes:Granite Gooseberry is a native shrub in the Gooseberry family (Grossulariaceae). It is native to the northeast portion of Alabama. Granite Gooseberry grows on dry rocky slopes and in rich woods. It is a small to medium sized deciduous shrub reaching 9 feet in height, though it is most often between 3-5 feet in height. The stems are erect to recurving and often root at the tips. There are 3 reddish brown spines at each node. The leaves are alternate, petiolate, and have three rounded lobes. The leaves are pubescent and glandular, bright shiny green in color, with toothed margins. Flowers are solitary or in 2-4 flowered racemes. The flowers are white in color. The hypanthium (the fused basal portions of the calyx, the corolla, and the stamens forming a cup-shaped tube) in bell shaped with scattered hairs. The sepals are separate, white, and spreading. The petals are white and connivent (in close contact but not fused). Flowers have a strong fragrance of cloves. The fruit is a green to purple berry with numerous seed. The fruit is sometimes used in preserves and is consumed by birds and small mammals. Granite Gooseberry is listed as a S2 species in Alabama (typically 6 to 20 occurrences, few remaining individuals, acres, or miles of stream, or factors demonstrably making it very vulnerable in the state). Globally it is listed as a G4 species (imperiled globally because of rarity (6 - 20 occurrences, or few remaining acres, or miles of stream) or very vulnerable to extinction throughout its range because of other factors).--A. Diamond
Taxonomic Notes:**
Status:Native, S2 (State Rank), G4 (Global Rank)
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Specimen: View specimen details in the Alabama Herbarium Consortium Specimen Database

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Classification

FamilyGROSSULARIACEAE - Gooseberry family
Genus Ribes
Species Ribes curvatum Small - Drooping Gooseberry; Granite Gooseberry

Citation

Citation Ribes curvatum Small, Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 23(8): 295. 1896.
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Synonyms

SynonymFull CitationBasionymType
Grossularia curvata    

Specimens and Distribution

This species has been reported in the following counties by the herbaria listed. An overview of the individual specimens are provided in the table that follows. Click on the accession number to view details; click on column headers to sort; choose a county or herbaria to filter the specimen data.

Counties included on distribution map: Clay, Cleburne, DeKalb, Jackson, Madison, Marshall, Shelby, Talladega

Counties represented by specimen data listed below:

Herbaria represented by specimen data listed below: ALNHS, AUA, JSU, TROY, UNA, UWAL

Range of years during which specimens were collected: 1980 - 1983

Barcode / Accession No.
County
Coll. Date
Collector &
Collection No.
Herbarium &
Herbarium Name Used
Image
AUA_ACC_21865 Clay 2 May 1970 WARD, L.A.
129		 AUA
RIBES CURVATUM SMALL
JSU125411 Clay 8 Apr 1981 Whetstone, R. David
10687		 JSU
Ribes curvatum Small
JSU125412 Clay 3 May 1983 Bussey, Melanie G.
612		 JSU
Ribes curvatum Small
UNA00050140 Clay 03 May 1983 Bussey, Melanie C.
612		 UNA
Ribes curvatum Small
JSU125410 Clay 22 Oct 1994 Ballard, J. Mark
5234		 JSU
Ribes curvatum Small
JSU125409 Clay 21 Apr 1995 Ballard, J. Mark
5479		 JSU
Ribes curvatum Small
UWAL0050220 Clay 23 May 2019 Diamond, Alvin R.
28936		 UWAL
Ribes curvatum Small
TROY000048253 Clay 23 May 2019 Diamond, Alvin R.
28936		 TROY
Ribes curvatum Small
AUA_ACC_60930 Cleburne 30 Apr 1968 O'NEAL, JUDY
 AUA
RIBES CURVATUM SMALL
JSU125414 Cleburne 24 Jun 1969 Tudor, Jessica
s.n.		 JSU
Ribes curvatum Small
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