Prickly Gooseberry, Eastern Prickly Gooseberry, Dogberry, Ribes cynosbati L., Native Minnesota Wildflower shrub, Eloise Butler Wildflower Garden

	Plants of the Eloise Butler Wildflower Garden
	Common Name	Scientific Name	Plant Family	Garden Location	Prime Season
	Eastern Prickly Gooseberry	Ribes cynosbati L.	Currant	Woodland	Spring
Other names and notes	(Dogberry). The most common wild Gooseberry, the greenish-yellow tubular flowers appear in small clusters from the leaf axils, giving rise to a fruit with scattered prickles. The stems may have prickles also. These plants grow in many places in the Woodland Garden including on the back path to the Upland Garden. Ribes are the alternate host to white pine blister rust.


Above: Green fruit and leaf in late June.	Above: Mature fruit in mid-August.

Below: The stages of development. Left - open flower; center - Closed flower; Right - leaf and developing fruit. All from early May.

Notes: This plant is indigenous to the Garden area. Eloise Butler catalogued it on April 29, 1907. It is native to Minnesota in most counties except the SW, the far NW and the most NE.

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References: Plant characteristics are generally from sources 15, 16, 30, 31, 33, W2 & W3. Distribution principally from W2 and also 31, 34 and W1. Planting history generally from 1, 4 & 4a. Other sources by specific reference. See Reference List for details.

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