Ribes echinellum Jonas Meyer in early summer

in early summer

a group of hybrids between the native dahoon

is one of the great winter-fragrance shrubs

content to leave the bark and the autumn fire to carry the season

usually from root rot

Ribes echinellum Jonas Meyer in early summerMiccosukee gooseberry is one of the rarest shrubs in the Southeast, a federally threatened native known from just two places on earth: a single site in McCormick County, South Carolina, and another in Jefferson County, Florida. The low, arching shrub, two to four feet tall, carries spiny branches and forms small thickets on shaded hardwood forest hillsides, and small, long petaled, creamy flowers hang from the branches in their season, followed by