Lake Tahoe basin plant

I found this plant in the Lake Tahoe Basin recently. Can you tell me what it is? It is a shrub and those pods have hard spines.

Thanks!

 

Chrysolepis.

 

Thanks Ron B. I have just uploaded a couple more that maybe you (or anyone) can help me with. They are also from the Lake Tahoe basin.

 

Last one is Spear Thistle Cirsium vulgare. Native for me, an invasive weed in your area.

 

1/ Purshia tridentata?
2/ Ceanothus prostratus?
3/ Dieteria canescens
4/Pterospora andromeda?
5/
6/ Ribes viscossisimum or R. nevadense
7/ Carex sp. and Scirpus microcarpus?
8/Juncus sp.

 

#5 is also Carex sp, another than in #7

 

thanks everyone