Fuchsia-flowered Gooseberry
Fuchsia-flowered gooseberry is a common name for two gooseberry species with showy flowers native to western North America: *''Ribes lobbii'', native to northern California and the Pacific Northwest *''Ribes speciosum ''Ribes speciosum'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Grossulariaceae, which includes the edible currants and gooseberries. It is a spiny deciduous shrub with spring-flowering, elongate red flowers that resemble fuchsias, though it i ...'', native to coastal central and southern California, Baja California and also in the foothills around San Jose. It tends to grows in full or nearly full shade, and in slightly moister spots such as north-facing slopes, slope bottoms or near natural drainages. References

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Ribes Lobbii
''Ribes lobbii'' (known commonly by the names gummy gooseberry, fuchsia-flowered gooseberry or pioneer gooseberry) is a shrubby, deciduous, shade-intolerant perennial dicot found on the western coast of North America. It was first described in 1876 by Asa Gray.''Amer. Naturalist'' x. (1876) 274. The specific name (botany), specific epithet was a dedication to the English plant collector William Lobb. Description ''Ribes lobbii'' is a deciduous, loosely branched shrub, about half a meter to one meter (20–40 inches) in height. Its stems are spreading, finely hairy, generally having three slender node (botany), nodal spine (botany), spines, 7–12 mm long. It has bark that starts out brown, changing to a deep greyish-red later. Leaves The leaves of ''R. lobbii'' are borne on smooth stalks. Each leaf is 1.3–2.6 cm long, 1.5–2.5 cm wide, alternate, ovate, shallowly heart-shaped at the base, shallowly cleft and deeply toothed, with 3–5 rounded lobes. The upper ...
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