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Ribes echinellum
Miccosukee gooseberry (Ribes echinellum) is a very rare, spiny shrub in the currant family, native to the southeastern United States, growing to about 1.5 m with purple spiny berries. It is an uncommon wild species rather than a common garden plant, and it grows best in part shade on moist, well-drained soil.
Ribes echinellum, the Miccosukee gooseberry, is a very rare North American shrub in the currant family, native to the southeastern United States. It has only a few known populations. The Florida populations were discovered first, in 1924 at Lake Miccosukee. The South Carolina populations were found in 1957 and 1981, and the first is protected at Steven's Creek Heritage Preserve.
Ribes echinellum is a shrub up to 150 cm (5 feet) tall with spines at the nodes (places where the leaves are attached to the stem). Leaves are round or egg-shaped with three lobes. It has whitish or pale yellow flowers and purple spine-covered berries.
Ribes echinellum is cultivated in a few places outside its native areas, as far south as Hudson, Florida, but does not reproduce there.
It is most abundant in the shade of deciduous trees on moist but well-drained soils with pH of 6.7 to 7.4.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Ribes echinellum by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
