We forgot that we bought one of these a few years back and just assumed it was totally wild. Looking back at our records we did plant one whip back in 2022 and it's no longer where we put it...so maybe it survived long enough to end up in some animals who then distributed them around the yard.
The pictured grouping is off the back deck.
I feel like berry naming is so rife with pitfalls lol. This did prompt me to check if the species was listed at the nursery we bought it from but it's not, and the picture is red berries... But I'm pretty sure they are Rubus occidentalis.
Speaking of Rubus, that's awful close to ribes and one of my favorite confusing naming stories: Gooseberry? What I call a gooseberry is from the ribes family but apparently what I call a ground cherry (Physalis) is also called a gooseberry?
We also have lots of ground cherry popping up as volunteers, but those are self seeding annuals...
Edit: and a fucking porcupine killed one of the gooseberries this year 😭