Species: Ribes velutinum

Desert Gooseberry is a spreading, often rounded shrub 1-2 m tall, with slender branches that arch. Branches have single stout spines and no bristles. Leaf blades are thickish, with 3-5 deep lobes, and smooth to finely hairy surfaces on both sides. The infloresence of 1-2 flowers is borne at the leaf axils and is shorter than the leaves. Flowers have a tubular or slightly bell-shaped form with a hairy calyx and are less than 8 mm long. Both calyx lobes and petals are white or yellowish, and calyx lobes are almost twice as long as the petals. The dry globose berry is reddish and smooth.