Snow Currant

Grossularia nivea (Undl.) Spach, Hist. V6g. 6: 179. 1838
Ribes niveum I,indl. Eot. Reg. pi. 1692. 1834.
Not bristly, 3 m. high or less, the slender glabrous branches upright or ascending, reddish to brown ; nodal spines 1-3, stout, brown, 1-2 cm. long. Leaves suborbicular in outline, thin, sparingly pubescent or glabrous, 3-5-lobed, truncate to cuneate and entire at the base, the lobes few-toothed, the slender petioles mostly shorter than the blades ; peduncles nodding, slender, 1-4-fiowered, glabrous, shorter than the leaves ; bracts ovate, small, membranous, much shorter than the filiform pedicels ; ovary glabrous ; hypanthium white, glabrous, campanulate, about 2 mm. long ; sepals white, narrowly lanceolate, 6-8 mm. long ; petals white, cuneate, erose, about u fourth as long as the sepals : filaments filiform, pubescent, slightly longer than the sepals; anthers broadly oval, pubescent, about 1 mm. long; style villous below; berry globose, glabrous, bluish-black, subacid, about 8 mm. in diameter.
Type locality : Northwest America.
Distribution : Idaho and eastern Washington to northern Nevada.

Ribes niveum is a North American species of currant known by the common names snowy gooseberry, white-flowered gooseberry, or snow currant. It is native to the western United States (Washington, Idaho, Oregon, and Nevada with isolated populations in Colorado and New Mexico).

Ribes niveum is a shrub up to 3 meters (10 feet) tall, with white or pale pink flowers and dark blue or dark purple berries. Berries are edible but rather sour.