Jahns Prairie Gooseberry vs Alpine Currant - TreeTime.ca

Jahns Prairie Gooseberry vs Alpine Currant

Ribes oxyacanthoides Jahns Prairie

Ribes alpinum

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Jahns Prairie Gooseberry
Alpine Currant

Jahns Prairie Gooseberry produces large, delicious red fruit.

Found in the Red Deer River valley by Dr. Otto Jahn in 1984. This cultivar was found to resist insects and disease, tolerate frost, and produce high quality fruit.

Alpine Currant is a great shrub to plant along sidewalks, near building or at your property boundary as a hedge or accent species. It is widely used by commercial landscapers in parking lots and near buildings because of its hardiness, attractiveness, and pollution tolerance.

While Alpine Currant produces edible berries, they are not palatable.

Jahns Prairie Gooseberry Quick Facts

Alpine Currant Quick Facts

Zone: 3a
Zone: 2a
Height: 1.5 m (5 ft)
Height: 1.5 m (5 ft)
Spread: 0.9 m (3 ft)
Spread: 1.5 m (5 ft)
Light: full sun
Light: any
Moisture: normal, wet
Moisture: normal
Growth rate: fast
Growth rate: medium
Life span: short
Life span: medium
Suckering: none
Suckering: low


Foliage: glossy green
Fall colour: yellow
Flowers: greenish yellow and fragrant
Berries: red-pink berries
Berries: small, bright red
Harvest: mid to late July
Hybrid: no
Hybrid: no
Catkins: no
Catkins: no


Other Names: mountain currant