Gooseberry
Ribes spp.
- has modest taste.
- varieties in the Pacific Northwest are Swamp gooseberry (Ribes lacustre), Northern gooseberry (Ribes oxyacanthoides), White-stemmed gooseberry (Ribes interme)
- Swamp gooseberry is a waist-high shrub with thorns and dark purple berry that is 6-8mm long
- Northern gooseberry grows in moist woods, in plains, foothills and montane regions.
- White-stemmed gooseberry grows in woods in foothill and montane regions.
- warning: eating gooseberries in quantity may cause stomach upset.
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