Appalachian Gooseberry

Grossularia rotundifolia (Michx.) Coville & Britton
Ribes rotundifolium Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 1 : 110. 1803. Ribes triflorum Willd. Hort. Berol. pL 61. 1806. Ribes stamineum Hornem. Hort. Hafn. 237. 1813. Grossularia iriflora Spach, Hist. V^g. 6 : 176. 1838.
Stems usually less than 1 m. high, the slender branches not bristly, brown, or the young shoots gray; nodal spines few and small, seldom over 5 mm. long. Leaves ovateorbicular to suborbicular in outline, 2-5 cm. wide, mostly 3-lobed, coarsely dentate, broadly cuneate to subcordate at the base, minutely pubescent, or almost glabrous, not glandular, the glabrous or sparingly pubescent petioles mostly shorter than the blades ; peduncles 1-3flowered, filiform, drooping, shorter than the petioles ; pedicels much longer than the small bracts; ovary glabrous; hypanthium campanulate, purplish, about 2 mm. long; sepals linear, greenish-purple, about twice as long as the hypanthium ; petals obovate ; stamens somewhat longer than the sepals; berry globose, smooth, 6-8 mm. in diameter, purplish.

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, tasty pale purple berries.