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§1 Plant
Ribes montigenum McClatchie
vernacular gooseberry currant — species · Grossulariaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Shrub
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Grossulariaceae DC.
- Genus
- Ribes
§2a
Native status, by region
- CAN Canada Native
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 170 counties across 11 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- High
- Shade
- Medium
- Moisture use
- Medium
- Fire
- Medium
- Salinity
- None
- Anaerobic
- None
- CaCO₃
- Medium
- Hedging
- High
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- -3 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 120 min.
- Precipitation
- 10–35 in/yr
- pH range
- 7–8
- Root depth
- 12 in min.
- Fertility need
- Medium
- Soil texture
- coarse, medium
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Multiple Stem
- Growth rate
- Rapid
- Lifespan
- Moderate
- Mature height
- 1 ft
- Height @ 20 y
- 1 ft
- Foliage texture
- Medium
- Foliage colour
- Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Dense
- Porosity (winter)
- Porous
- Flower colour
- Red
- Fruit colour
- Brown
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- None
- Toxicity
- None
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Early Summer
- Seed abundance
- High
- Seed begins
- Summer
- Seed ends
- Fall
- Spread rate
- Rapid
- Stratify
- Yes
- Seeds / lb
- 163,798
- Propagation
- seed, cuttings, bare root, container
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- Routinely Available
- Nursery stock
- Yes
- Browse palatability
- Medium
- Graze palatability
- Medium
- Palatable, human
- Yes
- Protein potential
- Medium
- Lumber
- No
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 170 counties across 11 states/territories.
Arizona view state ↗ 3 N ▾
California view state ↗ 24 N ▾
- Alpine 06003
- Amador 06005
- El Dorado 06017
- Fresno 06019
- Inyo 06027
- Lake 06033
- Lassen 06035
- Los Angeles 06037
- Madera 06039
- Mariposa 06043
- Modoc 06049
- Mono 06051
- Nevada 06057
- Placer 06061
- Plumas 06063
- Riverside 06065
- San Bernardino 06071
- Shasta 06089
- Sierra 06091
- Siskiyou 06093
- Tehama 06103
- Trinity 06105
- Tulare 06107
- Tuolumne 06109
Colorado view state ↗ 29 N ▾
- Alamosa 08003
- Boulder 08013
- Chaffee 08015
- Clear Creek 08019
- Conejos 08021
- Custer 08027
- Delta 08029
- Dolores 08033
- El Paso 08041
- Garfield 08045
- Gilpin 08047
- Grand 08049
- Gunnison 08051
- Hinsdale 08053
- Huerfano 08055
- La Plata 08067
- Lake 08065
- Larimer 08069
- Mesa 08077
- Mineral 08079
- Montezuma 08083
- Park 08093
- Pitkin 08097
- Rio Blanco 08103
- Routt 08107
- Saguache 08109
- San Juan 08111
- San Miguel 08113
- Summit 08117
Idaho view state ↗ 20 N ▾
Montana view state ↗ 22 N ▾
- Beaverhead 30001
- Broadwater 30007
- Carbon 30009
- Cascade 30013
- Chouteau 30015
- Gallatin 30031
- Glacier 30035
- Jefferson 30043
- Judith Basin 30045
- Lake 30047
- Madison 30057
- McCone 30055
- Meagher 30059
- Missoula 30063
- Park 30067
- Prairie 30079
- Roosevelt 30085
- Sheridan 30091
- Stillwater 30095
- Sweet Grass 30097
- Teton 30099
- Wibaux 30109
Nevada view state ↗ 10 N ▾
New Mexico view state ↗ 13 N ▾
Oregon view state ↗ 9 N ▾
Utah view state ↗ 25 N ▾
- Beaver 49001
- Box Elder 49003
- Cache 49005
- Carbon 49007
- Daggett 49009
- Duchesne 49013
- Emery 49015
- Garfield 49017
- Grand 49019
- Iron 49021
- Juab 49023
- Kane 49025
- Piute 49031
- Salt Lake 49035
- San Juan 49037
- Sanpete 49039
- Sevier 49041
- Summit 49043
- Tooele 49045
- Uintah 49047
- Utah 49049
- Wasatch 49051
- Washington 49053
- Wayne 49055
- Weber 49057
Washington view state ↗ 5 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/RIMO2 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/10137876 ↗Record version
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