Ribes speciosumPursh

Fuchsiaflower Gooseberry

WFO wfo-0001135632 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Ribes speciosum, photographed by Millie Basden
fig. a Millie Basden, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-04-20 / obs. 189489958
Ribes speciosum, photographed by Millie Basden
fig. b Millie Basden, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 186621637
Ribes speciosum, photographed by Adam J. Searcy
fig. c Adam J. Searcy, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 186992830
Ribes speciosum, photographed by Chuck Wilson
fig. d Chuck Wilson, CC0 1.0 / obs. 184297226
Ribes speciosum, photographed by Dan Horowitz
fig. e Dan Horowitz, CC0 1.0 / obs. 186141637
Ribes speciosum, photographed by Henrik Kibak
fig. f Henrik Kibak, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 184246995
Ribes speciosum, photographed by Alexander Wentworth
fig. g Alexander Wentworth, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 183304738
Ribes speciosum, photographed by Dee Shea Himes
fig. h Dee Shea Himes, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 182920916

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Confused withby our own model

These are not lookalikes we guessed at. Each one is a species our identification model genuinely mistook for this plant, and how many times. The error rate is published.

Flowering n = 756 observations

Peak flowering in Mar, from 756 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 4 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Grossularia speciosa (Pursh) Coville & Britton
  • Ribes fuchsioides Moc. & Sessé ex Berland.
  • Ribes stamineum Sm.
  • Robsonia speciosa (Pursh) Spach

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.