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Ribes sanguineum Pursh

Blut-Johannisbeere (DE), Flowering Currant, Flowering Currant, Redflower currant (EN)

Climate known 67 photographs
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Summary

Ribes sanguineum, the flowering currant, redflower currant, red-flowering currant, or red currant is a North American species of flowering plant in the family Grossulariaceae. It is native to the western United States and Canada.

Text from Wikipedia, “Ribes sanguineum”, CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted as written. Kept separate from everything derived here.

About the genus · Ribes

Ribes is a genus of approximately 200 known species of flowering plants, predominantly native to the temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere. Ribes is the sole genus in the plant family Grossulariaceae. The genus includes species commonly referred to as redcurrants, blackcurrants, whitecurrants, and gooseberries. More on Wikipedia ›

The opening of Wikipedia, “Ribes”, CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted as written.

Family
Grossulariaceae
Described by
Pursh
Native to
British Columbia, Idaho, Oregon +2
Wild records
535 in range· 137 open

At a glance

Warmest month
24°C
Aug, mean day; nights 13 °C (CHELSA)
Rain
1324mm/yr
10 wet months · peak Dec 212 mm (CHELSA)
Light
6–43DLI
mol/m²/day, winter to summer, open sky (CHELSA shortwave)
In short condensed by rule from the cultivation cards · not written by a person
Rain rule: a winter growing season, October to March in the northern hemisphere (October to March at the habitat, northern). Habitat rain 1324 mm a year, wettest December at 212 mm, driest July at 20 mm (habitat calendar, northern hemisphere). Open sky over the habitat: 6 to 43 mol/m²/day. Cold floor -8.0 °C (1st-percentile habitat night, NASA POWER).
Each sentence is one card's own one-line form, written by the same rule as the card (Its year, Rain, Light, Temperature); the note cannot say what a card does not. Months are given for the northern hemisphere (set your site in Settings to change this), and the habitat's own alongside. The cards · the figures.

Also known as Calobotrya sanguinea (Pursh) Spach; Coreosma sanguinea (Pursh) Spach; Ribes alceifolium Kunze; Ribes alceifolium Kunze ex Walp.; Ribes augustum Douglas and 11 more.

Cultivation

Its year Rain rule: a winter growing season, October to March in the northern hemisphere (October to March at the habitat, northern).

This species’ habitat figures, and what two fixed rules read from them.

The rain rule reads a winter growing season: 70% of the year's rain (1019 mm of 1324 mm) falls in October to March, cooler than the year (wet-season mean 6.8 °C against a yearly mean of 10.7 °C). Months are the habitat's, northern hemisphere; shifted six months for a southern-hemisphere collection: April to September.

Read from the median year of CHELSA monthly rainfall and mean temperature across the envelope cells: the rain rule takes the smallest set of months carrying 70% of the rain and calls it winter when its mean is more than half a degree below the year's, summer when more than that above, and neither in between; the temperature rule, used only under 120 mm, names the cooler six months when they are at least a degree cooler than the other six. Months are shifted for the other hemisphere only where the temperature curve gives a season to reverse. A reading of the curves, not an observation of the plant.

Rain Habitat rain 1324 mm a year, wettest December at 212 mm, driest July at 20 mm (habitat calendar, northern hemisphere).

This species’ habitat figures, with their source.

1324 mm a year at the habitat, 1019 mm of it October to March. Wettest month December at 212 mm, driest July at 20 mm. Across the envelope cells the year's total runs 794 mm to 2197 mm (10th to 90th percentile of each cell's own year) (median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA; habitat calendar, northern hemisphere).

CHELSA monthly precipitation, median year across the envelope cells. The rain that falls where the species is recorded; nothing about how the plant takes water.

Light Open sky over the habitat: 6 to 43 mol/m²/day.

This species’ habitat figures, with their source.

Open sky over the habitat: 6 to 43 mol/m²/day across the year (daily light integral, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA; the lowest 10th-percentile month across the cells is 5, the highest 90th-percentile month 50).

CHELSA shortwave radiation at each envelope cell, a daily-mean flux taken to a daily total and converted at 2.07 mol of PAR per MJ. The sky over the habitat, measured; what reaches a plant under a rock, a shrub or a shade cloth is not.

Warmth and air Cold floor -8.0 °C (1st-percentile habitat night, NASA POWER).

This species’ habitat figures, with their source.

Temperature

Coldest: the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at the typical cell is -8.0 °C, the absolute minimum -19.9 °C, about 36 frost nights a year (NASA POWER daily minima). Warmest: the 99th-percentile day is 33.6 °C. Monthly means: coldest night 1.7 °C in December (across the envelope cells -2.8 °C to 6.7 °C), warmest day 23.8 °C in August (median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA). Cold floor: -8.0 °C, which is the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at the typical cell (NASA POWER).

NASA POWER daily minima and maxima 1981–2024 at the typical cell, lapse-corrected to its elevation; CHELSA monthly means, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA. The cold floor is the figure named in its sentence. Not a measured survival limit for any plant in a pot.

Humidity

Relative humidity at the habitat: 58 to 65% across the year (monthly means, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA). A figure about the air, saying nothing about how the plant takes water.

CHELSA relative humidity, median year across the envelope cells.

The figures the cards read from are in Climate below, and where they came from in Natural habitat.

Climate across the habitat

Habitat climate through the yearMean day from 7 °C in Dec to 24 °C in Aug; mean night from 2 °C in Dec to 13 °C in Aug. The cold quarter, Nov to Jan, is the three months around the coldest night. 1324 mm of rain a year, most in Dec. The bands show the 10th to 90th percentile across 374 habitat cells. Over 44 years at the typical cell the absolute minimum was -19.9 °C and the 99th-percentile day 33.6 °C; neither is dated to a month. Beneath: daily light integral and relative humidity through the year, each on its own scale.-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°frost33.6° 99th-percentile day (undated)-19.9° lowest night in 44 yrs (undated)°C · day and nightcold quarter0100200300400mm rainDLI 6–43RH 58–65 %JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
day night rain 10th–90th percentile across 374 habitat cells cold quarter: the three months around the coldest night extremes over 44 years at the typical cell, marked at the edge: undated DLI, mol/m²/dayRH %each on its own scale
Figures by month
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Day °C7 / 4–129 / 6–1311 / 8–1413 / 11–1617 / 14–1920 / 16–2324 / 18–2824 / 18–2821 / 17–2515 / 13–199 / 7–157 / 3–12
Night °C2 / -2–72 / -2–74 / -1–86 / 1–89 / 5–1011 / 8–1213 / 11–1513 / 11–1512 / 9–138 / 5–115 / 0–92 / -3–7
Rain mm197 / 128–341146 / 93–252136 / 82–24194 / 51–16570 / 31–11951 / 7–9120 / 2–4824 / 4–5446 / 8–87117 / 50–214211 / 116–353212 / 133–361
DLI8 / 6–1413 / 12–2021 / 19–3030 / 28–3936 / 34–4640 / 36–5043 / 39–5038 / 35–4428 / 26–3617 / 14–269 / 7–176 / 5–13
RH %65 / 61–6863 / 60–6662 / 60–6561 / 59–6460 / 58–6459 / 57–6458 / 54–6658 / 54–6660 / 55–6563 / 58–6665 / 61–6965 / 61–69

Each figure is the median across the 374 grid cells holding the 523 in-range records, with the 10th–90th percentile span across those cells after the slash where it differs. Extremes and elevation were read at the typical cell 852:1156 (47.375, -122.175). Over 44 years there: absolute minimum -19.9 °C, 1st-percentile night -8.0 °C, 99th-percentile day 33.6 °C. Normals: CHELSA V2.1 1981–2010 climatology, 0.05° cells (each the mean of ~36 1 km pixels). Envelope: median and 10th–90th percentile of each month across the 374 distinct grid cells holding the 523 in-range records; extremes and elevation at the typical cell 852:1156 (its coldest month's mean night nearest the median across cells); its position is the cell centre. Extremes: NASA POWER (MERRA-2) daily 1981–2024, cell 47.50_-121.875, lapse-corrected -351 m at 6.5 °C/km. Elevation: ETOPO 2022, 131 m (cell mean).

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing: the climate was read across every in-range record's cell, not at the marker.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeBritish Columbia, Idaho, Oregon, Washington, California· introduced: Great Britain, Ireland, Norway, Sweden, Czechoslovakia, Germany, Spain, Tasmania
Extinct inMexican Pacific Is.· recorded as extinct by WCVP: history, not habitat; no records are tested against these regions
Kew's description“shrub” · “temperate”· quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Map marker47.659, -122.288 · in the densest population, 253 records (47% of those in range)
Evidence usedThe map marker and the climate envelope rest on all 535 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 137 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 3 km away. 1047 records outside the range (gardens, roadsides, misidentifications) ignored. 12 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km and stay on the map but off the climate.
The map markerthe map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population of the 535 in-range records; it decides nothing.

Photographs

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Photographs: (c) Kieran Hanrahan, some rights reserved (CC BY); no rights reserved · CC0 (3); (c) Jonathan Curley, some rights reserved (CC BY); (c) John A Haskins, some rights reserved (CC BY) (2); (c) Therese Phillips, some rights reserved (CC BY).

Photographs: iNaturalist did not answer when this page was built; what is shown came from the sources that did.

Papers naming this species

Works whose title or abstract names Ribes sanguineum, most cited first, from OpenAlex (CC0). A mention, not a cultivation source: nothing on this page is drawn from them.

Currants
Kim E. Hummer, Danny L. Barney (2002) · HortTechnology
On the formation and fine structure of septate wood fibres of Ribes sanguineum
N. Parameswaran, W. Liese Reinbek (1969) · Wood Science and Technology
Occurrence and distribution of viruses in commercial plantings of Rubus, Ribes and Vaccinium species in Chile.
P. Arce-johnson, Consuelo Medina, José Tomás Matus, C. San-Martín (2006) · International Journal of Agriculture and Natural Resources
Flowering currant ( Ribes sanguineum ) shrublands in the lower Waitaki Valley, South Canterbury
Peter A. Williams (1984) · New Zealand Journal of Agricultural Research
Occurrence and genetic diversity of Blackcurrant reversion virus found on various cultivated and wild Ribes in Latvia
Neda Zuļģe, Alina Gospodaryk, Inga Moročko‐Bičevska (2017) · Plant Pathology
‘Oregon Snowflake’ Flowering Currant
Ryan N. Contreras, Mara W. Friddle (2015) · HortScience
Anomalous Structures in the Bordered Pits of Fiber-Tracheids of Ribes Sanguineum
N. Parameswaran, W. Líese (2007) · Wood and Fiber Science (Society of Wood Science and Technology)
Ribes sanguineum Pursh. as donor of leaf fungal disease resistance in blackcurrant breeding
T. Šikšnianas, G. Stanienė, V. Stanys, A. Sasnauskas (2008) · Biologija

Similar habitat climate the 6 species whose habitat climate is nearest this one's: mean day and night, month by month, and rain on a log scale, in calendar order, so a habitat with the same seasons six months out is far, not near. Nothing else counts: not range, not family.

Other Ribes 6 in the reference

History & registers

Where this page came from built 2026-09-20 · dossier v2 · node
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gbif.occurrences answeredGBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.3h4zam
climate answered
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Every upstream is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, or refused. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 82 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.