Fr: groseillier hérissée, groseillier à trois fleurs, groseillier de marécages, fausse-épine
IA: shapuminakashi, shapumin (the fruit)
Provincial Status: LN
Range: Boreal eNA; thr. Nfld., N to s/cLab.
[=Grossularia hirtella (Michx.) Spach]
[=Grossularia hirtella (Michx.) Spach var. calcicola (Fernald) A.Berger]
[=Grossularia saxosa (Hook.) Lunell]
[=Ribes hirtellum Michx. var. calcicola (Fernald) Fernald]
[=Ribes hirtellum Michx. var. saxosum (Hook.) Fernald]
[=Ribes huronense Rydb.]
[=Ribes oxycanthoides L. var. calcicola Fernald]
[=Ribes oxycanthoides L. var. hirtellum (Michx.) Scoggan]
[=Ribes oxycanthoides L. var. saxosum (Hook.) Coville]
[=Ribes saxosum Hook.]
[=Ribes triflorum Bigelow]
[The common name, wild gooseberry, is preferred in NL over swamp gooseberry (used in mainland Canada), since Ribes hirtellum is usually found on drier habitats in Nfld., such as forest edges and rocky shores on calcareous substrates, and thickets in limestone or serpentine barrens. Stems are mainly smooth, except for a few spines at each node; older stems are sometime more bristly, causing confusion in identification with R. oxyacanthoides, the bristly wild gooseberry. Flowers of R. hirtellum have stamens that extend well beyond the petals. Labrador reports of Ribes hirtellum refer to Waghorne's historic collections from l'Anse au Clair (Rousseau 1974) and a report from Green Island, Lake Melville, by I. Watts (1976).]