Calflora: Ribes sanguineum

Ribes sanguineum Pursh

Flowering Currant, red flowering currant, redflower currant

Ribes sanguineum, a dicot, is a shrub that is native to California and is also found outside of California, but is confined to western North America.

Communities:	Yellow Pine Forest, Red Fir Forest, Chaparral, Mixed Evergreen Forest, Foothill Woodland, Closed-cone Pine Forest
Elevation:	between 0 and 7218 feet
Family:	GROSSULARIACEAE
Related:	See a list of other species in the genus Ribes found in California.
	This is a parent record; distribution data is an aggregate of data for subspecies and varieties: Ribes sanguineum var. glutinosum Ribes sanguineum var. sanguineum

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Accepted by TJM2 + PLANTS + JM93

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Distribution by County:

See a detailed Distribution Grid of this plant in California.

A shaded county indicates that there are ocurrence records of this plant within the county.

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	There are specimen records from this county in an herbarium.
	There are documented records, vouchered or confirmed by an expert.
	There are reported records.
	There are reported records available indirectly (eg. in botanical literature).

Records by County, with approximate record counts in the form: TOTAL / CCH. Click county name to view records.

Alameda: 83 / 44 CCH Contra Costa: 45 / 10 CCH Del Norte: 58 / 52 CCH Glenn: 5 / 4 CCH Humboldt: 166 / 153 CCH Los Angeles: 3 / 2 CCH Mendocino: 49 / 31 CCH Monterey: 60 / 44 CCH Mariposa: 1 / 1 CCH Marin: 49 / 31 CCH Napa: 4 / 1 CCH Santa Barbara: 37 / 33 CCH San Benito: 3 / 3 CCH Santa Clara: 37 / 36 CCH Santa Cruz: 28 / 21 CCH San Francisco: 58 / 24 CCH Shasta: 2 / 0 CCH Siskiyou: 69 / 61 CCH San Luis Obispo: 49 / 45 CCH San Mateo: 69 / 49 CCH Solano: 4 / 2 CCH Sonoma: 22 / 13 CCH Tehama: 2 / 2 CCH Trinity: 24 / 20 CCH Yuba: 1 / 1 CCH

CCH: records provided by the participants of the Consortium of California Herbaria.

Information about Ribes sanguineum from other sources:

Photos on Picasa / Flickr / Google Images
website references on Google
USDA PLANTS Profile (RISA)
Nursery availability and horticultural info (what grows with this plant?) on CNPLX
2012 Jepson Manual Treament from the Jepson Herbarium,
University of California, Berkeley
Original Publication citation. on the International Plants Names Index
Search efloras.org (Flora of North America)
Search the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center Native Plant Database