Summary Flowers are greenish-white, and the bristly fruits white to greenish and pleasant-tasting. ²

Ribes cynosbati is a shrub native to eastern North America, with several common names including Prickly Gooseberry, Eastern Prickly Gooseberry, Dogberry, Dog Bramble, and Groseillier des Chiens (in Québec). It grows in rich forests, rocky slopes, and open heaths from New Brunswick to Georgia to North Dakota to Ontario and Québec.

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1. (c) Kerry Woods, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-ND), https://www.flickr.com/photos/93854456@N03/11422290205/
2. Adapted by Amy Rager from a work by (c) Wikipedia, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ribes_cynosbati

More Info

• iNat taxon page
• Biodiversity Heritage Library
• BOLD Systems BIN search
• eFloras.org
• Flora of North America (beta)
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
• Go Botany
• HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants
• IPNI (with links to POWO, WFO, and BHL)
• Maryland Biodiversity Project
• NatureServe Explorer 2.0
• SEINet Symbiota portals
• Tropicos
• USDA PLANTS database
• VASCAN by Canadensys
• World Flora Online

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