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Ribes rotundifolium
Appalachian gooseberry (Ribes rotundifolium) is a native North American shrub in the currant family, growing up to about 1.5 m tall with small pale flowers and sweet, dark berries. It is a wild species from forest edges and mountain woods, rarely grown in gardens, and is grown mainly for its native habitat value and fruit.
Ribes rotundifolium is a North American species of currant known by the common names wild gooseberry and Appalachian gooseberry. It is native to the eastern United States, primarily the Adirondacks, from Massachusetts and the Appalachian Mountains south as far as South Carolina and Tennessee.
Ribes rotundifolium is a shrub up to 150 cm (5 ft) tall, with cream-colored, pinkish or pale green pink flowers and dark blue or dark purple berries. Berries are sweet, pale purple berries.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Ribes rotundifolium 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.
