Ribes oxyacanthoidesL.

Canadian gooseberry

WFO wfo-0001135622 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Ribes oxyacanthoides, photographed by Eric Lamb
fig. a Eric Lamb, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-05 / obs. 203872792
Ribes oxyacanthoides, photographed by dghjertaas
fig. b dghjertaas, CC0 1.0 / obs. 199173472
Ribes oxyacanthoides, photographed by Eric Lamb
fig. c Eric Lamb, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 128863786
Ribes oxyacanthoides, photographed by Sarah Vermaak
fig. d Sarah Vermaak, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 86888884
Ribes oxyacanthoides, photographed by Syd Cannings
fig. e Syd Cannings, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 81008084
Ribes oxyacanthoides, photographed by Syd Cannings
fig. f Syd Cannings, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 79142960
Ribes oxyacanthoides, photographed by Rob Foster
fig. g Rob Foster, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 74539270
Ribes oxyacanthoides, photographed by Syd Cannings
fig. h Syd Cannings, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 74158364

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Native range 24 botanical countries

Regions where Ribes oxyacanthoides is native: Alaska, Alberta, British Columbia, Idaho, Manitoba, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, Newfoundland, North Dakota, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Ontario, Oregon, Québec, Saskatchewan, South Dakota, Utah, Washington, Wisconsin, Wyoming, Yukon AlaskaAlbertaBritish ColumbiaIdahoManitobaMichiganMinnesotaMontanaNebraskaNevadaNewfoundlandNorth DakotaNorthwest TerritoriesNunavutOntarioOregonQuébecSaskatchewanSouth DakotaUtahWashingtonWisconsinWyomingYukon
Native distribution of Ribes oxyacanthoides, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Alaska ASK NORTHERN AMERICA
Alberta ABT
British Columbia BRC
Idaho IDA
Manitoba MAN
Michigan MIC
Minnesota MIN
Montana MNT
Nebraska NEB
Nevada NEV
Newfoundland NFL
North Dakota NDA
Northwest Territories NWT
Nunavut NUN
Ontario ONT
Oregon ORE
Québec QUE
Saskatchewan SAS
South Dakota SDA
Utah UTA
Washington WAS
Wisconsin WIS
Wyoming WYO
Yukon YUK

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Flowering 123 in flower of 266 examined

Peak flowering in May. Each bar is the share of Ribes oxyacanthoides observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 123 of 266 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 6 months have fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for them. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Also published as 23 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Grossularia cognata (Greene) Coville & Britton
  • Grossularia irrigua (Douglas) Coville & Britton
  • Grossularia neglecta A.Berger
  • Grossularia non-scripta A.Berger
  • Grossularia oxyacanthoides (L.) Mill.
  • Grossularia setosa (Lindl.) Coville & Britton
  • Ribes camporum Blank.
  • Ribes cognatum Greene
  • Ribes divaricatum var. irriguum (Douglas) A.Gray
  • Ribes grossularioides Michx. ex Steud.
  • Ribes hendersonii C.L.Hitchc.
  • Ribes irriguum Douglas
  • Ribes leucoderme A.Heller
  • Ribes neglectum (A.Berger) Standl.
  • Ribes non-scriptum (A.Berger) Standl.
  • Ribes oxyacanthoides subsp. cognatum (Greene) Q.P.Sinnott
  • Ribes oxyacanthoides subsp. hendersonii (C.L.Hitchc.) Q.P.Sinnott
  • Ribes oxyacanthoides subsp. irriguum (Douglas) Q.P.Sinnott
  • Ribes oxyacanthoides subsp. setosum (Lindl.) Q.P.Sinnott
  • Ribes oxyacanthoides var. leucoderme (A.Heller) Jancz.
  • Ribes saximontanum E.Nelson
  • Ribes setosum Lindl.
  • Ribes triflorum Bigelow

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.