Ribes quercetorum is a species of currant known by the common names rock gooseberry, oak gooseberry and oakwoods gooseberry. It is native to the mountains and hills of California from the San Francisco Bay Area south into Baja California and east into Arizona.Biota of North America Program 2014 county distribution mapSEINet, Southwestern Biodiversity, Arizona chapter photos, description, distribution mapCalflora taxon report, University of California, Ribes quercetorum E. Greene, Foothill gooseberry, oak gooseberry, rock gooseberry Ribes quercetorum grows in woodlands, chaparral, and dry desert slopes and canyons. It is a spreading shrub producing arching stems up to 1.5 meters (5 feet)long, the nodes along the stems bearing 1 to 3 spines each up to 1.5 centimeters (0.6 inch) long. The lightly hairy, glandular leaves are up to 3 centimeters (1.2 inches) long and are divided into a few lobes which are toothed or lobed at their tips. The inflorescence is a raceme of 2 or 3 small flowers. Each flower has five reflexed yellow sepals around a tube-shaped ring of smaller cream-colored petals. The fruit is an spherical, edible black berry just under a centimeter (0.4 inch) in diameter.Flora of North America, Ribes quercetorum Greene, 1885. Oak gooseberry
No narrative description available for this taxon yet.
A DNA barcode is a short, standardised stretch of genes that works like a fingerprint — enough to tell one species from another. Below is the molecular trace Ribes quercetorum has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
DNA specimens3
Marker genes3
eDNA detections1
Countries1
Marker genes sequenced
★ the standard DNA barcode for this group — the short region actually read to tell this species apart. The rest are extra genes sequenced along the way.
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plant barcodefungal barcode
08Occurrence & distribution
Record type1 280 records
Wild obs. + sensor505
Museum / vouchered558
Other217
Origin
Native275
Range
Area of Occupancy AOO2 280 km²
Wildobservation + sensor
Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.
Coordinate accuracy90% within 1 km
≤100 m 299≤1 km 20≤10 km 17>10 km 17
353 georeferenced · 152 without coordinates
Open the mapobservation + sensor505
Museum / Voucheredphysical evidence
Backed by a physical specimen — a herbarium sheet, sample or voucher held in a collection. “Vouchered” means supported by material evidence, not just an observation.
Coordinate accuracy62% within 1 km
≤100 m 67≤1 km 112≤10 km 108>10 km 4
291 georeferenced · 267 without coordinates
Open the institutions mapphysical evidence558
Wildobservation + sensor
Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.
10Collections & institutions
Holding institutions28 of 39 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
Institution
Specimens
San Diego, US
111
Claremont, US
79
Riverside, US
59
Santa Barbara, US
51
San Luis Obispo, US
28
CASlocation not on record
21
US
20
Davis, US
17
Los Angeles, US
7
Ensenada, MX
6
Canadian Department of Agriculturelocation not on record
6
DOI/NPS, Little Rock Central High School National Historic Sitelocation not on record
5
Austin, US
5
Phoenix, US
5
Severin-McDaniel Insect Collectionlocation not on record
5
EL PASO, US
5
Flagstaff, US
4
Arcata, US
4
ASUlocation not on record
3
Logan, US
3
San Jose, US
3
Fredericton Stock Culture Collectionlocation not on record
3
Mexico City, MX
2
University of Stellenboschlocation not on record
2
DOI/NPS, Colonial National Historical Parklocation not on record
2
Angwin, US
2
Irvine, US
2
Saint Louis, US
1
Long Beach, US
1
Chongqing Museumlocation not on record
1
Pullman, US
1
Austin, US
1
St. Paul, US
1
Santa Cruz, US
1
Moscow, US
1
Calabar, NG
1
Universidad Católica de Manizaleslocation not on record
1
Arizona State University Biocollectionslocation not on record
1
Bronx, US
1
39 institutions · 472 of 558 vouchered records shown · 86 without an institution code
09Environmental DNA1 detections
Where the DNA of Ribes quercetorum was picked up in samples of water, soil or air — nobody saw the organism, only its DNA left behind. A trace is a clue that the species was near, not a confirmed sighting.
Signal
Detections DNA found1
Studies independent surveys1
Countries1
Signal confidence: weakweighed across independent studies, places & mapped detections
Where its DNA was found
0 of 1 detections have coordinates
Open the map1 country0
Desert scrub; Juniperus californica, Acacia …
How strong is each trace?
DNA read depthRead counts were not reported for this species — the map shows presence only, not how strong each trace was.
Modelled climatemodelled
−15°Ctemperature across detection sites+40°C
Temperature median7.60 °C 7.60–7.60
Seasonal swing summer↔winter18.1 °C
Max temp (day)13.6 °C
Min temp (night)1.90 °C
Precipitation83.5 mm/mo
Air humidity48.9 %
Moisture balance-6.20 mm/mo
Vapour deficit536 Pa
Wind speed5.70 m/s
Cloud cover40.7 %
CHELSA 1981–2010, ~9 km grid, at location & month of 1 detection point · median with p10–p90 · reflects where sampling happened, not only the true niche
How to read this: each dot is one detection of this species' DNA in an environmental sample. The confidence meter weighs how many independent studies and places back up the signal — one detection in one study is a hint; many across several studies is solid. Records dated before 2008 (when eDNA methods began) are treated as likely mislabeled and left off the map.
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GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility1 280 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI1 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics3 specimens↗
GRIN TaxonomyUSDA-ARSdistribution & uses↗
Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗
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