Inland gooseberry is a streamside shrub of medium height with a loose, open shape. It likes a bit more sun than our other streamside currants (prickly and northern black currants), and unlike them it also produces berries that are palatable to humans (they're all edible, this species just happens to taste nice). They don't produce many berries per bush, so you'll want several if you've got your eye on preserving. 
 
This species can tolerate periodic dry down, and frankly is one of our tougher species of moist-site currants. Not only that, it's the first shrub to bloom in the nursery in the spring, making it highly attractive to early season bees. I often have to scatter pots of inland gooseberry around the nursery so the bees don't all fight over a single cluster of them! 
 
Plant in a moist or irrigated area with fireweed, horsemint, sneezeweed, and pearly everlasting, or  perhaps as a thicket with elderberries, hawthorn, woods rose, and chokecherry. Everyone should have at least one of these tough little pollinator magnets.