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Ribes oxyacanthoides
Also called Northern Gooseberry, Canada Gooseberry, Bristly Wild Gooseberry
A North American gooseberry shrub, 0.5 to 2 m tall, with prickly branches and small edible berries. It is hardy and tolerates cold, but the thorns make it awkward to handle.
Ribes oxyacanthoides is a North American species of gooseberry known by the common name Canadian gooseberry. Its various subspecies have common names of their own.
The shrub is native to North America, where it occurs in Alaska through much of Canada and the western and north-central United States.
Humans find the berry somewhat palatable. Many Native American groups collected and stored it for food. The Ojibwa cooked and ate it with sweet corn and made it into preserves, for example. The root was used medicinally.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Ribes oxyacanthoides by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
