List of Ribes species explained

This list of Ribes species shows many of the approximately 200 accepted species in the plant genus Ribes, the single genus in the Saxifragales family Grossulariaceae. Traditionally, these have been divided into a number of subgenera, such as subgenus Ribes (currants) and subgenus Grossularia (gooseberries).

Subgenus Ribes L.

Section Berisia Spach

This section comprises Alpine currants, dioecious species distributed through Eurasia

Flowers Fruit Scientific name Distribution
Ribes achurjani Armenia
Ribes acuminatum India
Ribes armenum South Caucasus
Ribes alpinum – alpine currant northern Europe from Finland and Norway south to the Alps and Pyrenees and Caucasus, Georgia
Ribes diacanthum – Siberian currant (Russia, Mongolia, Korea, northeastern China (Heilongjiang, Jilin, Inner Mongolia)
Ribes giraldii China (E Gansu, Liaoning, Shaanxi, SW Shanxi.)
Ribes glabricalycinum China (Sichuan)
Ribes glabrifolium China (W Hubei, S Shaanxi)
Ribes glaciale – glacier currant China (SE Gansu, Henan, W Hubei, Shaanxi, Sichuan, SE Xizang, NW Yunnan), Bhutan, N India, Kashmir, N Myanmar, Nepal, Sikkim
Ribes henryi China (W. Sichuan, Hubei)
Ribes heterotrichum Central Asia to Mongolia and N. Pakistan.
Ribes humile China (Sichuan)
Ribes hunanense China (Guangxi, Hunan)
Ribes kialanum China (W. Sichuan, NW. Yunnan)
Ribes komarovii Russian Far East, northern and central China, North Korea
Ribes laurifolium – evergreen currantChina (W. Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan) to Myanmar.
Ribes luridum – purple currantNepal to China (W. Sichuan, NW. Yunnan)
Ribes maximowiczii – common Korean currant China (Heilongjiang, Jilin, E Liaoning),Japan, Korea, Russia
Ribes melananthum Iran
Ribes orientale – Siberian currant China (W Sichuan, Xizang, NW Yunnan),Bhutan, India, Kashmir, Nepal, Russia; SW Asia, SE Europe
Ribes saxatile China (Xinjiang), Russia
Ribes takare China, Bhutan, N India, Kashmir, Myanmar, Nepal, Sikkim
Ribes tianquanense China (Sichuan)
Ribes pseudofasciculatum China (Xizhang, Sichuan, Qinghai)
Ribes pulchellum S. Siberia to N. China.
Ribes rubrisepalum China (Gansu, S Shaanxi, W Sichuan, NW Yunnan.)
Ribes tenue China (E Gansu, W Henan, W Hubei, NW Hunan, SW Shaanxi, Sichuan, Yunnan)
Ribes vilmorinii China (Hebei, W Sichuan, NW Yunnan.)
Ribes xizangense China (Xizang)

Section Calobotrya (Spach) Jancz.

This section comprises North American species commonly known as ornamental currants

Flowers Fruit Scientific name Distribution
Ribes brandegeei Mexico
Ribes canthariforme – Moreno currantCalifornia
Ribes cereum – Squaw currant, wax currant, white field currant, whiskey currant British Columbia, Alberta, and much of the western United States, from Washington, Oregon, and California east as far as the western Dakotas and the Oklahoma Panhandle
Ribes ceriferum Mexico (Durango and Chihuahua)
Ribes ciliatum Mexico
Ribes dugesii Mexico
Ribes indecorum – white-flowered currant Santa Barbara County in California south into northern Baja California.
Ribes malvaceum – Chaparral currant California and northern Baja California
Ribes mescalerium – Mescalero currant southeastern New Mexico, western Texas, and the Mexican State of Chihuahua.
Ribes neglectum Mexico
Ribes nelsonii Mexico (Sonora, Chihuahua)
Ribes nevadense – Sierra currant, Jaeger's currant, Nevada currant California, Nevada, Oregon
Ribes orizabae Mexico (Veracruz)
Ribes pringlei Central & SW. Mexico.
Ribes grande Mexico (Puebla)
Ribes sanguineum – flowering currant, redflower currant, blood currant, sticky blood currant, blackseed blood currant, winter currant western United States and Canada.
Ribes tortuosum Mexico
Ribes viscosissimum – sticky currant United States, Canada
Ribes wolfii – Wolf's currant northern Idaho, northeastern Oregon, and southeastern Washington. Utah, Colorado, Arizona, and New Mexico, Mexico

Section Coreosma (Spach) Jancz.

This section comprises Eurasian and American black currants

Flowers Fruit Scientific name Distribution
Ribes americanum – American blackcurrant, wild blackcurrant Canada (from Alberta to Nova Scotia) and the northern United States (from New England to Washington, with additional populations in Colorado and New Mexico)
Ribes bracteosum – stink currant southeastern Alaska to Mendocino County in California
Ribes dikuscha Siberia to Russian Far East.
Ribes hudsonianum – northern blackcurrant, Hudson Bay currant, western blackcurrant Canada, from Quebec westwards; and parts of the United States (Alaska, the Great Lakes region, the northern Rockies, Cascades, Blue Mountains, and other parts of the Northwest)
Ribes janczewskii Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
Ribes japonicum – Japanese blackcurrant, thornless blackcurrantJapan (Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku)
Ribes malvifolium Tadzhikistan
Ribes nigrum – Blackcurrant, European blackcurrant northern Europe and northern Asia
Ribes procumbens – trailing redcurrantSiberia to N. Korea, Japan (C. Honshu)
Ribes ussuriense – Korean blackcurrantSiberia to N. Korea, Japan (C. Honshu)
Ribes viburnifolium – Island gooseberry Southern California

Section Grossularioides (Jancz.) Rehd.

This section comprises spiny or Gooseberry-stemmed currants from North America

Flowers Fruit Scientific name Distribution
Ribes lacustre – black gooseberry, prickly currant, black swamp gooseberry California to Alaska and across North America east to Pennsylvania and Newfoundland, and south as far as New Mexico.
Ribes montigenum – gooseberry currantWashington south to California and east as far as the Rocky Mountains

Section Heritiera Jancz.

Flowers Fruit Scientific name Distribution
Ribes erythrocarpum – Crater Lake currant Cascade Mountains in the US State of Oregon
Ribes acerifolium – maple currant, mapleleaf currant Canadian Province of British Columbia as well as to the northwestern United States (Washington, Idaho, Oregon)
Ribes glandulosum – skunk currant, fetid currant United States (Alaska, the Great Lakes region, the Appalachian Mountains, and the Northeast)
Ribes laxiflorum – trailing blackcurrant from Alaska and Yukon south as far as northern California and New Mexico

Section Parilla Jancz.

Flowers Fruit Scientific name Distribution
Ribes andicola Colombia
Ribes albifolium Peru
Ribes austroecuadorense Ecuador
Ribes chachapoyense Peru
Ribes colandina Peru
Ribes contumazensis Peru
Ribes costaricense Costa Rica
Ribes cucullatum Argentina and Chile
Ribes dombeyanum Peru
Ribes ecuadorense Colombia, Ecuador
Ribes erectum Colombia, Ecuador
Ribes fasciculatum – Japanese currant China, Japan, and Korea,
Ribes hirticaule Peru
Ribes hirtum Colombia to Ecuador.
Ribes incarnatum Peru to W. Bolivia.
Ribes incertum Peru.
Ribes integrifolium Chile
Ribes lehmannii Ecuador.
Ribes luteynii Ecuador
Ribes macrobotrys Peru
Ribes macrostachyum Peru.
Ribes magellanicum Chile and Argentina
Ribes nanophyllum Ecuador
Ribes nitidissima Chile
Ribes ovalifolium Peru
Ribes parvifolium Chile.
Ribes pentlandii Peru to W. Bolivia
Ribes peruvianum Peru.
Ribes polyanthes Chile.
Ribes praecox Peru
Ribes punctatum Chile
Ribes ruizii Chile
Ribes sanchezii Peru.
Ribes sardoum – Sardinian currantSardegna
Ribes steinbachiorum Bolivia
Ribes sucheziense Bolivia
Ribes tolimense Colombia
Ribes trilobum Central & S. Central Chile.
Ribes valdivianum Chile
Ribes weberbaueri Peru

Section Ribes L.

Flowers Fruit Scientific name Distribution
Ribes altissimum – tall currantMongolia, Russia (Siberia), China (Xinjiang)
Ribes biebersteinii E. Turkey to NW. Iran.
Ribes griffithii Nepal to China (W. Sichuan, NW. Yunnan)
Ribes himalense – smooth rock currant Pakistan to SW China
Ribes latifolium – broadleaf currantChina (S. Jilin) to N. Korea, Sakhalin to N. Japan
Ribes longeracemosum – Tibet thornless blackcurrantChina (Sichuan, Yunnan, W. Hubei).
Ribes mandshuricum Russian Far East to N. & E. Central China and Korea.
Ribes meyeri – Meyer's currantCentral Asia to Mongolia and NE. Afghanistan
Ribes moupinense Central & S. China.
Ribes multiflorum – manyflower currantCentral Italy, Balkan Peninsula to W. Central Turkey
Ribes pallidiflorum northeastern China to Russia
Ribes petraeum – rock currant, rock redcurrant, Bieberstein's rock currant Europe
Europe
Ribes sachalinense Sakhalin to Japan (Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku).
Ribes setchuense China (Sichuan, SE. Gansu)
Ribes spicatum – Nordic redcurrant, Nordic currant, downy currant northern Europe and northern Asia
Ribes soulieanum Tibet to China (NW. Yunnan).
Ribes triste – northern redcurrant or swamp redcurrant, wild redcurrant Canada and the northern United States, as well as in eastern Asia (Russia, China, Korea, Japan)
Ribes turbinatum Kazakhstan

Subgenus Grossularia (Mill.) Pers.

Section Grossularia(Mill.) Nutt.

Flowers Fruit Scientific name Distribution
Ribes aciculare – needle-spined gooseberrynorthern China, Siberia.
Ribes alpestre from Afghanistan to SW China
Ribes ambiguum China South-Central, Japan
Ribes burejense China, N Korea, Mongolia, Russia
Ribes curvatum – Granite gooseberry United States (Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Arkansas, Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama)
Ribes cynosbati – prickly gooseberry, eastern prickly gooseberry, dogberry, dog bramble eastern and central United States and Canada
Ribes divaricatum – spreading gooseberry, wild gooseberry, coast gooseberry, coastal black gooseberry, Parish's gooseberry, Worcesterberry western North America from British Columbia to California
Ribes echinellum – Miccosukee gooseberry Florida, South Carolina
Ribes formosanum Taiwan.
Ribes grossularioides – Japanese gooseberry, catberryJapan
Ribes hirtellum – North American gooseberry, hairystem gooseberry, currant gooseberry Canada and the northern United States
Ribes horridum – thorny currantRussian Far East to N. Korea, Japan
Ribes inerme – whitestem gooseberry, Klamath gooseberry British Columbia to California and westward to the Rocky Mountains
Ribes missouriense – Missouri gooseberrynorth-central United States (Great Lakes, upper Mississippi and lower Missouri Valleys)
Ribes niveum – snow gooseberry, slender-branched gooseberrywestern United States (Washington, Idaho, Oregon, and Nevada with isolated populations in Colorado and New Mexico)
Ribes oxyacanthoides – American mountain gooseberry, Canadian gooseberry, stream gooseberry, Henderson's gooseberry, Idaho gooseberryAlaska through much of Canada and the western and north-central United States
Ribes rotundifolium – Appalachian gooseberry, round-leaved gooseberryMassachusetts and the Appalachian Mountains south as far as South Carolina and Tennessee
Ribes sinanense – Chinese gooseberry Japan (C. Honshu)
Ribes stenocarpum – narrow-fruited currantS. & E. Qinghai to China Gansu, Shaanxi, NW. Sichuan
Ribes uva-crispa – gooseberry, wild gooseberry, European gooseberry, English gooseberryEurope, the Caucasus and northern Africa

Subgenus Hesperia A.Berger

Flowers Fruit Scientific name Distribution
Ribes amarum – bitter gooseberryCalifornia
Ribes californicum – Hillside gooseberry, California gooseberry, Monterey gooseberryCalifornia
Ribes cruentum – shinyleaf currant, Oregon currantCalifornia, Oregon
Ribes leptosma California
Ribes menziesii – Canyon gooseberry, Menzies' gooseberryCalifornia and Oregon
Ribes roezlii – Sierra gooseberry, Roezl's gooseberryCalifornia, its distribution extending east into Nevada and north into Oregon
Ribes victoris – Victor's gooseberryCalifornia

Subgenus Lobbia A. Berger

Section Lobbia

Flowers Fruit Scientific name Distribution
Ribes binominatum – ground gooseberrynorthern California and western Oregon.
Ribes lasianthum – alpine gooseberryCalifornia, Nevada
Ribes leptanthum – trumpet gooseberryArizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, and Utah
Ribes lobbii – gummy gooseberryUnited States (Siskiyou Mountains, eastern Columbia Gorge, Crater Lake National Park, Mount Rainier National Park, Olympic National Park) and British Columbia in Canada
Ribes marshallii – Hupa gooseberrysouthern Oregon and northern California
Ribes microphyllum Guatemala, Mexico
Ribes pinetorum – orange currantArizona and New Mexico.
Ribes quercetorum – rock gooseberryCalifornia
Ribes sericeum – Lucia gooseberryCalifornia
Ribes tularense – Tulare gooseberrysouthern California
Ribes velutinum – desert gooseberry, Gooding's gooseberryMontana, Idaho, Washington, Oregon, Utah, Nevada, California, and Arizona
Ribes watsonianum – spring gooseberryWashington and Oregon.

Section Robsonia Berland.

Flowers Fruit Scientific name Distribution
Ribes speciosum – fuchsia-flowered gooseberrysouthern California and Baja California
Ribes thacherianum coast of California

Hybrids

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Flowers Fruit Scientific name Parents
Ribes x bethmontii Ribes malvaceum x R. sanguineum
Ribes × culverwellii Ribes nigrum x Ribes uva-crispa
Ribes × futurum Ribes rubrum × Ribes warszewiczii
Ribes x gonduini Ribes petraeum × Ribes rubrum
Ribes × gordonianum Ribes odoratum × Ribes sanguineum
Ribes × holocericeum Ribes petraeum × Ribes spicatum
Ribes × houghtonianum Ribes rubrum × Ribes spicatum
Ribes × koehneanum Ribes multiflorum × Ribes rubrum
Ribes × nidigrolaria – Jostaberry Ribes divaricatum x Ribes uva-crispa
Ribes × van-fleetianum Ribes missouriense × Ribes uva-crispa.
Ribes x varoi Ribes uva-crispa × Ribes petraeum