List of plants known as gooseberry

Gooseberry most often refers to cultivated plants from two species of the genus Ribes:

• Ribes uva-crispa native to Europe, northwestern Africa and southwestern Asia.
• Ribes hirtellum, American gooseberry
• Hybrids between Ribes hirtellum and Ribes uva-crispa, including most of the modern gooseberry cultivars

The common name is also used for:

Ribes

• the genus Ribes as a whole
• particular species of Ribes contrasted with currants, i.e., many but not all of the wild species, including:
  • Ribes amarum, bitter gooseberry, native to California
  • Ribes binominatum, trailing gooseberry, native to northwestern North America
  • Ribes californicum, California gooseberry
  • Ribes cynosbati, prickly gooseberry, native to eastern North America
  • Ribes divaricatum, spreading gooseberry, native to western North America
  • Ribes echinellum, Miccosukee gooseberry, native to Florida
  • Ribes inerme, whitestem gooseberry, native to northwestern North America
  • Ribes lacustre, swamp gooseberry, native to northwestern North America
  • Ribes lasianthum, alpine gooseberry, native to California
  • Ribes leptanthum, trumpet gooseberry, native to southwestern North America
  • Ribes lobbii, gummy gooseberry, native to western North America
  • Ribes marshallii, Hupa gooseberry, native to western North America
  • Ribes menziesii, canyon gooseberry, native to California
  • Ribes missouriense, Missouri gooseberry, native to southeastern North America
  • Ribes montigenum, mountain gooseberry, native to western North America
  • Ribes oxyacanthoides, Canadian gooseberry, native to northern North America
  • Ribes quercetorum, rock gooseberry, native to California
  • Ribes roezlii, Sierra gooseberry, native to western North America
  • Ribes sericeum, Lucia gooseberry, native to California
  • Ribes speciosum, fuchsia-flowered gooseberry, native to California
  • Ribes thacherianum, Santa Cruz gooseberry, native to Santa Cruz Island, California
  • Ribes tularense, Sequoia gooseberry, native to California
  • Ribes velutinum, desert gooseberry, native to western North America
  • Ribes viburnifolium, Island gooseberry, native to California
  • Ribes victoris, Victor's gooseberry, native to California

Plants unrelated to Ribes

• Byrsonima lucida
• Ceylon gooseberry, a species of Dovyalis native to Sri Lanka and southern India
• Chinese gooseberry, or kiwifruit, the edible berry of a cultivar group of the woody vine Actinidia deliciosa and hybrids between this and other species in the genus Actinidia
• Pereskia aculeata, Barbados gooseberry, an unusual cactus
• Phyllanthaceae family:
  • Phyllanthus emblica, Indian gooseberry, emblic
  • Jamaican gooseberry tree, a herb-like plant of the family Phyllanthaceae
  • Otaheite gooseberry, the only tree with edible fruit in the Phyllanthaceae family
  • Star gooseberry
    • Phyllanthus acidus
    • Sauropus androgynus, a shrub grown in some tropical regions as a leaf vegetable
• In the Solanaceae family:
  • Physalis angulata, also called balloon cherry, and cutleaf groundcherry
  • Physalis peruviana, Cape gooseberry, indigenous to South America
• Withania somnifera, Poison gooseberry