Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Grossularia hesperia (McCIatchie) Coville &Britton
Ribes hesperium McCIatchie, Erythea 2 : 79. 1894.
Ribes occidentale hesperium Jancz. M^m. See. Geneve 35 : 368. 1907.
A shrub 1.5-3 m. high, the spreading branches smooth, without bristles; nodal spines stoutly subulate, straight or curved, 1.6 cm. long or less. Leaves thin, suborbicular in outline, 4.5 cm. wide or less, 3-5-lobed, crenate-dentate, mostly truncate at the base, loosely puberulent on both sides, paler beneath than above, with minute sessile glands beneath or nearly glandless, the slender puberulent petiole as long as the blade or shorter ; peduncles puberulent, 1-2-flowered, mostly shorter than the petioles, 5-15 mm. long ; bracts flabellate, pubescent, ciliate, shorter than the pedicels ; ovary densely bristly, a few of the shorter bristles sometimes gland-tipped ; hypanthium campanulate, greenish, 2-3 mm. long, puberulent ; sepals greenish or greenish-red, 7-9 mm. long, puberulent, narrowly lanceolate ; petals white, tinged with red, cuneateoblong, 2or 3-toothed, about half as long as the sepals, equaling the filaments or nearly so ; anthers oblong-lanceolate, mucronate, about 2.5 mm. long; berry densely prickly, 1.5 cm. in diameter or less.
Type locality : Canons of the San Gabriel Mountains, California. Distribution : Southern California.
- bibliographic citation
- Frederick Vernon Coville, Nathaniel Lord Britton, Henry Allan Gleason, John Kunkel Small, Charles Louis Pollard, Per Axel Rydberg. 1908. GROSSULARIACEAE, PLATANACEAE, CROSSOSOMATACEAE, CONNARACEAE, CALYCANTHACEAE, and ROSACEAE (pars). North American flora. vol 22(3). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
