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teeth square-cut to wedge-shaped at base; flowers 

 snow-white, bell-shaped, deeply lobed, with long- 

 exserted, hairy stamens; gooseberries bluish black, 

 long- and slender-stalked, in drooping clusters often 

 2 inches long; graceful, widely branching shrub to 13 

 feet high; moist thickets, rocky banks or gravelly 

 soils along streams, ne. Oreg., se. Wash. 



snow gooseberry {Ribes niveum). 

 10. Mature leaves less than 1 inch wide (often not much 

 more than y 4 inch wide), deeply 3- to 5-cleft; stems with 

 recurved or arching branches, the older ones gray, often 

 without spines, usually with many short, scarred, spur- 

 like twigs at tips of which are clustered leaves; twigs and 

 younger branches pale, yellowish to reddish brown, usu- 

 ally with single spines of same color, rarely prickly or 

 bristly between joints; spines to nearly 1 inch long; 

 flowers hairy outside, broadly tubular, lobed to near or 

 below the middle; styles hairless, united and appearing 

 as a single style; gooseberries small, yellow (ripening 

 black) or red, hairless or finely short -white-hairy and/or 

 with stalked glands; shrubs to 6 feet high; dry, often 

 rockv sites. 



Snow gooseberry 



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