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Ribes lacustre
Also called Swamp Black Gooseberry, Black Gooseberry, Swamp Currant, Bristly Black Gooseberry, Swamp Gooseberry, Black Swamp Gooseberry, Bristly Black Currant
Prickly currant (Ribes lacustre) is a native North American shrub, usually 0.5 to 2 m tall, grown for its spiny stems and edible dark berries. It is hardy and does best in cool, moist, partly shaded sites such as woodland edges and wet ground.
Ribes lacustre is a species of flowering plant known by the common names prickly currant, bristly black currant, black swamp gooseberry, and black gooseberry. It is a shrub widely distributed in North America.
It is widely distributed, from California to Alaska and across North America east to Pennsylvania and Newfoundland, and south as far as New Mexico. It may be found in low-elevation forests and swamps all the way up to the subalpine.
American black currant · Golden currant · Stinky Black Currant · Hillside gooseberry · Wax currant · Spreading gooseberry · Miccosukee gooseberry · Skunk currant · Northern black currant · Whiteflower currant · Laurel Leaved Currant · Trailing black currant
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Ribes lacustre 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.
