Ribes alpinum L.

A shrub. It loses its leaves during the year. It grows 0.9-1.8 m high and spreads 0.9 m wide. The stems are smooth and red-purple. The leaves are 5 cm across and usually have 3 lobes. Male and female flowers are separate. The flowers are small and yellowish green. The fruit are red and bitter.

Cliffs and rocky woods on limestone. Broadleaf and spruce-broadleaf forests, forest edges, among shrubs, riverbanks; on slopes: mainly stony-limestone as well as granite slopes; rocky forest sites.

The fruit are eaten raw. They are also used for desserts, jam and drinks. The leaves are used to make a drink

Can be grown by cuttings or seedlings.