Ribes missouriense
Missouri gooseberry
Family GrossulariaceaeAlso called Missouri currant, wild gooseberry
About
Ribes missouriense, the Missouri gooseberry, is a prickly, many-stemmed shrub of the north-central United States that was nearly wiped out in Ohio by blister-rust control efforts.
Field notes
Morphology
A prickly shrub with many stems.
Distribution & habitat
North-central United States: the Great Lakes, upper Mississippi and lower Missouri valleys. Scattered eastern populations are probably garden escapes.
History & etymology
Once common as far east as Ohio, it was almost eliminated there in the 19th and 20th centuries, partly by early 20th-century campaigns to remove Ribes hosts of white pine blister rust.
Conservation
Protected as endangered in Ohio since 1982, and also endangered in New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
Habitat
- Altitude
- Not recorded
- Altitude class
- —
- Native to
- United States
Cultivation
- Difficulty
- Not recorded
Text adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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