Ribes divaricatum parishii (A.Heller) Jeps. (1935:151)
Straggly gooseberry, Parish's gooseberry
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonyms: Ribes parishii A.Heller in Muhlenbergia 1: 134 (1906); Grossularia parishii (A.Heller) Coville & Britton in N.L.Britton & al. (eds.), N. Amer. Fl. 22: 224 (1908); Ribes divaricatum subsp. parishii (A.Heller) A.E.Murray in Kalmia 12: 24 (1982)
Conservation Status
Extinct (Rejmánek, 2018; Smith, 2018; Knapp et al., 2020, 2021; POWO, 2024; Christenhusz & Govaerts, 2025; NatureServe, 2026)
Last record (disputed): 1963 (Sinnott, 1985; Smith, 2018); 1980 (Rejmánek, 2018; Knapp et al., 2021; Christenhusz & Govaerts, 2025; NatureServe, 2026)
Distribution & Habitat
California, USA
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Heller, A. A. (1906). Muhlenbergia 1: 134.
Other references:
Abrams, L. (1917). Flora of Los Angeles and Vicinity. Stanford University, CA: Stanford Bookstore.
Abrams, L. (1944). Illustrated flora of the Pacific states: Washington, Oregon, and California. Vol. 2. Polygonaceae to Krameriaceae. Stanford Univ. Press, Stanford, California. 635 pp.
Baldwin, B. B., Goldman, D. H., Keil, D. J., Patterson, R., Rosatti, T. and Wilken, D. (2012). The Jepson Manual, Vascular Plants of California second edition. Univ. California Press. 1568 pp.
Christenhusz, Maarten J. M. and Govaerts, Rafaël. (2023). Uitgestorven. Op plantenjacht rond de wereld: 1-511. Sterck & De Vreese.
Christenhusz, Maarten J. M. and Govaerts, Rafaël. (2025). Plant extinction in the Anthropocene. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 207(3): 183-196. https://doi.org/10.1093/botlinnean/boae045 [Appendix S1]
Coville, F. V. and Britton, N. L. (1908). Saxifrage Family, in: North American Flora 22: 224.
Hickman, J. C. (ed.). (1993). The Jepson Manual: Higher Plants of California. University of California Press. 1424 pp.
Jepson, W. L. (1936). A Flora of California, Volume 2. California School Book Depository. San Francisco.
Kartesz, J. T. (1994). A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland. 2nd edition. 2 vols. Timber Press, Portland, OR.
Knapp, Wesley M., Frances, Anne, Noss, Reed, Naczi, Robert F. C., Weakley, Alan, Gann, George D., Baldwin, Bruce G., Miller, James, McIntyre, Patrick, Mishler, Brent D., Moore, Gerry, Olmstead, Richard G., Strong, Anna, Gluesenkamp, Daniel and Kennedy, Kathryn. (2020). Regional records improve data quality in determining plant extinction rates. Nature Ecology & Evolution 4: 512-514. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-020-1146-1
Knapp, Wesley M., Frances, Anne, Noss, Reed, Naczi, Robert F. C., Weakley, Alan, Gann, George D., Baldwin, Bruce G., Miller, James, McIntyre, Patrick, Mishler, Brent D., Moore, Gerry, Olmstead, Richard G., Strong, Anna, Kennedy, Kathryn, Heidel, Bonnie and Gluesenkamp, Daniel. (2021). Vascular plant extinction in the continental United States and Canada. Conservation Biology 35(1): 360-368. https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.13621 [Supporting Information (Appendix S1)]
Munz, P. A. (1974). A flora of southern California. Univ. California Press, Berkeley. 1086 pp.
Munz, P. A. and Keck, D. D. (1959). A California flora. Univ. California Press, Berkeley. 1681 pp.
Munz, P. A. and Keck, D. D. (1963). A California Flora. University of California Press. 1681 pp.
NatureServe. (2026). Ribes divaricatum var. parishii: Parish's Gooseberry. NatureServe Network Biodiversity Location Data accessed through NatureServe Explorer [web application]. NatureServe, Arlington, Virginia. Available at: https://explorer.natureserve.org/ [Accessed on 19 September 2026]
POWO. (2024). Ribes divaricatum var. parishii (A.Heller) Jeps. Plants of the World Online (online resource). Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, United Kingdom. Available at: https://powo.science.kew.org/ [Accessed 2 April 2024]
Raven, Peter H. and Axelrod, Daniel I. (1978). Origin and Relationships of The California Flora. Univ. of California Publ. in Botany 72: viii + 134 pp.
Rejmánek, Marcel. (2018). Vascular plant extinctions in California: A critical assessment. Diversity and Distributions 24(1): 129-136. https://doi.org/10.1111/ddi.12665
Sinnott, Q. P. (1985). A revision of Ribes L. subg. Grossularia (Mill.) Pers. Sect. Grossularia (Mill.) Nutt. (Grossulariaceae) in North America. Rhodora 87: 189-286.
Smith, C. F. (1976). A flora of the Santa Barbara region. Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, Santa Barbara, California.
Smith, James P., jnr. (2018). California vascular plants: are some of them still out there? Botanical Studies 74: 1-4.
Walter, Kerry S. and Gillett, Harriet J. (eds.). (1998). 1997 IUCN Red List of Threatened Plants. Compiled by the World Conservation Monitoring Centre. Gland, Switzerland & Cambridge, UK: IUCN – The World Conservation Union. lxiv + 862 pp.
Warter, J. K. (1976). Late Pleistocene Plant Communities - evidence from the Rancho La Brea Tar Pits, pp. 32-39. In: Latting, J. (ed.). Plant Communities of Southern California, California Native Plant Society Spec. Publ. No. 2.
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