Ribes viburnifolium, Los Angeles County, US-CA, US

no rights reserved · observed growing wild · 2023-05-09

Ribes viburnifolium A.Gray

Catalina perfume, Evergreen Currant, Island gooseberry, Santa Catalina Island currant

Climate known 65 photographs

Every figure on this page is derived from public data by a stated rule and says its source; nothing here is written by a person or a model, except the Wikipedia passage, which is quoted and marked as such. How it is made.

Summary

Ribes viburnifolium, is an uncommon North American species in the gooseberry family. It is known by the common names Catalina currant, Santa Catalina Island currant, island gooseberry and evergreen currant.

Text from Wikipedia, “Ribes viburnifolium”, CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted as written. Kept separate from everything derived here.

About the genus · Ribes

Ribes is a genus of approximately 200 known species of flowering plants, predominantly native to the temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere. Ribes is the sole genus in the plant family Grossulariaceae. The genus includes species commonly referred to as redcurrants, blackcurrants, whitecurrants, and gooseberries. More on Wikipedia ›

The opening of Wikipedia, “Ribes”, CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted as written.

Family

Grossulariaceae

Described by

A.Gray

Native to

California, Mexico Northwest

Wild records

421 in range· 203 open

At a glance

Warmest month

25°C

Aug, mean day; nights 19 °C (CHELSA)

Rain

304mm/yr

5 wet months · peak Feb 69 mm (CHELSA)

Light

20–51DLI

mol/m²/day, winter to summer, open sky (CHELSA shortwave)

In short condensed by rule from the cultivation cards · not written by a person

Rain rule: a winter growing season, December to March in the northern hemisphere (December to March at the habitat, northern). Habitat rain 304 mm a year, wettest February at 69 mm, driest July at 1 mm (habitat calendar, northern hemisphere). Open sky over the habitat: 20 to 51 mol/m²/day. Cold floor 7.1 °C (1st-percentile habitat night, NASA POWER).

Each sentence is one card's own one-line form, written by the same rule as the card (Its year, Rain, Light, Temperature); the note cannot say what a card does not. Months are given for the northern hemisphere (set your site in Settings to change this), and the habitat's own alongside. The cards · the figures.

Cultivation

Its year Rain rule: a winter growing season, December to March in the northern hemisphere (December to March at the habitat, northern).

This species’ habitat figures, and what two fixed rules read from them.

The rain rule reads a winter growing season: 70% of the year's rain (225 mm of 304 mm) falls in December to March, cooler than the year (wet-season mean 13.4 °C against a yearly mean of 16.7 °C). Months are the habitat's, northern hemisphere; shifted six months for a southern-hemisphere collection: June to September.

Read from the median year of CHELSA monthly rainfall and mean temperature across the envelope cells: the rain rule takes the smallest set of months carrying 70% of the rain and calls it winter when its mean is more than half a degree below the year's, summer when more than that above, and neither in between; the temperature rule, used only under 120 mm, names the cooler six months when they are at least a degree cooler than the other six. Months are shifted for the other hemisphere only where the temperature curve gives a season to reverse. A reading of the curves, not an observation of the plant.

Rain Habitat rain 304 mm a year, wettest February at 69 mm, driest July at 1 mm (habitat calendar, northern hemisphere).

This species’ habitat figures, with their source.

304 mm a year at the habitat, 225 mm of it December to March. Wettest month February at 69 mm, driest July at 1 mm; 4 months under 5 mm. Across the envelope cells the year's total runs 231 mm to 502 mm (10th to 90th percentile of each cell's own year) (median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA; habitat calendar, northern hemisphere).

CHELSA monthly precipitation, median year across the envelope cells. The rain that falls where the species is recorded; nothing about how the plant takes water.

Light Open sky over the habitat: 20 to 51 mol/m²/day.

This species’ habitat figures, with their source.

Open sky over the habitat: 20 to 51 mol/m²/day across the year (daily light integral, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA; the lowest 10th-percentile month across the cells is 18, the highest 90th-percentile month 52).

CHELSA shortwave radiation at each envelope cell, a daily-mean flux taken to a daily total and converted at 2.07 mol of PAR per MJ. The sky over the habitat, measured; what reaches a plant under a rock, a shrub or a shade cloth is not.

Warmth and air Cold floor 7.1 °C (1st-percentile habitat night, NASA POWER).

This species’ habitat figures, with their source.

Temperature

Coldest: the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at the typical cell is 7.1 °C, the absolute minimum 3.3 °C, no frost in 44 years (NASA POWER daily minima). Warmest: the 99th-percentile day is 31.6 °C. Monthly means: coldest night 9.6 °C in January (across the envelope cells 5.9 °C to 12.5 °C), warmest day 25.3 °C in August (median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA). Cold floor: 7.1 °C, which is the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at the typical cell (NASA POWER).

NASA POWER daily minima and maxima 1981–2024 at the typical cell, lapse-corrected to its elevation; CHELSA monthly means, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA. The cold floor is the figure named in its sentence. Not a measured survival limit for any plant in a pot.

Humidity

Relative humidity at the habitat: 55 to 63% across the year (monthly means, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA). A figure about the air, saying nothing about how the plant takes water.

CHELSA relative humidity, median year across the envelope cells.

The figures the cards read from are in Climate below, and where they came from in Natural habitat.

Climate across the habitat

day night rain 10th–90th percentile across 149 habitat cells cold quarter: the three months around the coldest night extremes over 44 years at the typical cell, marked at the edge: undated DLI, mol/m²/dayRH %each on its own scale

Figures by month

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Day °C	17 / 14–18	17 / 15–19	18 / 15–20	19 / 16–23	20 / 17–26	22 / 18–29	24 / 19–32	25 / 20–32	25 / 20–31	23 / 19–26	19 / 17–22	17 / 15–18
Night °C	10 / 6–13	10 / 7–13	11 / 8–13	12 / 9–14	14 / 12–15	15 / 15–16	18 / 17–19	19 / 18–19	18 / 17–19	15 / 13–17	12 / 9–15	10 / 6–13
Rain mm	55 / 31–99	69 / 40–106	56 / 33–75	21 / 9–35	4 / 2–11	2 / 1–3	1 / 1–3	2 / 1–4	5 / 5–8	15 / 11–26	29 / 20–49	45 / 27–78
DLI	22 / 20–24	27 / 25–30	36 / 34–38	45 / 43–46	49 / 47–51	51 / 51–52	50 / 48–51	46 / 45–47	40 / 39–41	32 / 30–33	24 / 22–26	20 / 18–22
RH %	56 / 53–60	58 / 55–61	60 / 56–64	60 / 54–64	63 / 53–68	62 / 51–70	62 / 52–71	62 / 52–71	60 / 52–68	58 / 52–64	56 / 51–60	55 / 52–59

Each figure is the median across the 149 grid cells holding the 413 in-range records, with the 10th–90th percentile span across those cells after the slash where it differs. Extremes and elevation were read at the typical cell 1156:1262 (32.175, -116.875). Over 44 years there: absolute minimum 3.3 °C, 1st-percentile night 7.1 °C, 99th-percentile day 31.6 °C. Normals: CHELSA V2.1 1981–2010 climatology, 0.05° cells (each the mean of ~36 1 km pixels). Envelope: median and 10th–90th percentile of each month across the 149 distinct grid cells holding the 413 in-range records; extremes and elevation at the typical cell 1156:1262 (its coldest month's mean night nearest the median across cells); its position is the cell centre. Extremes: NASA POWER (MERRA-2) daily 1981–2024, cell 32.00_-116.875, lapse-corrected +32 m at 6.5 °C/km. Elevation: ETOPO 2022, 252 m (cell mean).

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing: the climate was read across every in-range record's cell, not at the marker.

Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.

NativeCalifornia, Mexico Northwest

Kew's description“shrub” · “subtropical”· quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here

Map marker31.811, -116.609 · in the densest population, 365 records (87% of those in range)

Evidence usedThe map marker and the climate envelope rest on all 421 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 203 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 12 km away. 2 records outside the range (gardens, roadsides, misidentifications) ignored. 8 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km and stay on the map but off the climate.

The map markerthe map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population of the 421 in-range records; it decides nothing.

Photographs

Photographs: (c) Aaron Kreisberg, some rights reserved (CC BY) (3); no rights reserved · CC0 (2); (c) Sula Vanderplank, some rights reserved (CC BY) (3).

Photographs: iNaturalist did not answer when this page was built; what is shown came from the sources that did.

Papers naming this species

Works whose title or abstract names Ribes viburnifolium, most cited first, from OpenAlex (CC0). A mention, not a cultivation source: nothing on this page is drawn from them.

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