Smooth Gooseberry Seeds
$7.95 CAD
Oak Summit Nursery
Canada Gooseberry Seeds
Canada Gooseberry Seeds
Pack contains: 20 seeds
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Canada Gooseberry (Ribes oxyacanthoides) is a native North American shrub with small edible berries and densely prickled, spreading branches. The fruit changes from green to reddish or purple as it ripens and can be eaten fresh or used in preserves.
This offer is for seed. Seedlings vary naturally. A cold moist stratification period of 90 days at 0 to 5°C is recommended for this species.
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Growing details
- Hardiness
- Zone 2
- Mature size
- 2 to 5 ft tall
- Fruit
- Berries just over half an inch wide that ripen from green to reddishA native gooseberry with edible fruit
- Stems
- Dense small spines
- Native range
- Alaska through much of CanadaAnd into the western and north central United States
- Site and soil
- Sun or some shadeProbably moderately shade tolerant
- Stratification
- Cold moist, 90 days at 0 to 5°CSpecies guidance from South Dakota State University; no lot germination test supplied
- Packet
- 20 seeds
More about this plant
Seed grown plants
These photographs illustrate the species. They do not establish this seed lot’s collection location. Seedlings vary naturally.
Range & hardinessZone 2 · Canadian maps for this plant
Green: provinces with native records
AB · BC · MB · NL · NT · NU · ON · QC · SK · YT
Zone 2 and warmer
Province records show native distribution, not every place the species grows. The hardiness map shows minimum winter hardiness; soil, moisture and summer warmth also matter.
About these maps
Climate: Natural Resources Canada, 1991–2020. Provincial distribution: VASCAN via retained botanical research. Province outlines: Natural Earth, public domain.
Open Government Licence – Canada