Ribes cynosbati L.

Grossularia cynosbati (L.) Mill. Gard. Diet
ed. 8. no. 5. 1768.
Ribes Cynosbati LSp. PI. 202. 1753.
Ribes gracile Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 1 : 111. 1803.
Ribes Cynosbati glabratum. Fernald, Rhodora 7 : 156. 1905.
Stems usually less than 1.5 m. high, the nodal spines slender, solitary or sometimes 2 or 3 together, erect or spreading, 6-10 mm. long, or often wanting ; prickles few and weak or none. Petioles 12-35 mm. long, slender, generally pubescent, sometimes with glandtipped hairs; leaf-blades nearly orbicular, 3-5 cm. broad, somewhat pubescent, at least when young, truncate or cordate at the base, deeply 3-5-lobed, the lobes crenate -dentate or incised ; peduncles and pedicels slender, the peduncles 1-3-flowered ; bracts small, ovate, much shorter than the pedicels ; ovary setose ; hypanthium green, ovoid-cylindric, much thicker than the ovary, 3-4 mm. long, about as thick as long, glabrous ; sepals green, oblong, shorter than the hypanthium ; petals obovate, shorter than the sepals; stamens a little longer than the petals, the anthers oblong ; style pubescent below; berry globose to oblong, winecolored, 8-12 mm. in diameter, with many or few subulate prickles.
Type locality : Canada.
Distribution : New Brunswick to North Carolina, Alabama, Missouri, and Manitoba.

Ribes cynosbati is a North American species of shrub in the family Grossulariaceae (gooseberries and currants). It is native to the eastern and central United States and Canada. It has several common names, including prickly gooseberry, eastern prickly gooseberry, dogberry, and dog bramble. It grows in rich forests, rocky slopes, and open heaths from New Brunswick south along the Appalachian Mountains to northern Alabama and west as far as Manitoba, the Dakotas and Oklahoma.