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Ribes californicum
Hillside gooseberry is a spiny, mostly erect shrub native to California's coastal and inland mountain ranges, grown for its edible red berries. It tolerates dry, rocky chaparral conditions and is best kept in open, well-drained sites.
Ribes californicum, with the common name hillside gooseberry, is a North American species of currant. It is endemic to California.
It is endemic to California, where it can be found throughout many of the California Coast, Transverse, and Peninsular Ranges in local habitat types such as chaparral and woodlands.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Ribes californicum by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
