When does Fuchsiaflower Gooseberry bloom in California?

Most often in February. Across 535 dated, research-grade observations of Ribes speciosum in California, the flowering season runs roughly January to March.

Peak February In flower 535 Examined 884 State California

Flowering 535 in flower of 884 examined

80%

95%

93%

76%

26%

19%

48%

Proportion of examined Ribes speciosum in California in flower, by month
Month	In flower	Examined	Share	95% interval
Jan	101	126	80%	72% to 86%
Feb	137	144	95%	90% to 98%
Mar	142	153	93%	88% to 96%
Apr	95	125	76%	68% to 83%
May	17	66	26%	17% to 37%
Jun	2	55	4%	1% to 12%
Jul	1	64	2%	0% to 8%
Aug	0	24	0%	0% to 14%
Sep	0	18	0%	0% to 18%
Oct	0	9	0%	0% to 30%
Nov	5	27	19%	8% to 37%
Dec	35	73	48%	37% to 59%

Peak flowering in Feb. Each bar is the share of Ribes speciosum in California observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 535 of 884 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.wt38fd.

What this is, and what it is not

This is a record of when people in California found Ribes speciosum in flower, not a forecast. It is computed only from observations made in California, so it is not the species’ global average dragged onto a map: the same plant flowers on different dates in different places, and that is the entire point of the page.

It will not tell you what your particular plant will do this year. Bloom time moves with the season, with altitude, and with the weather, and a warm February pulls everything forward. We publish the distribution and the sample size, and we refuse to draw a month that too few people examined.

The plant

Ribes speciosum

Fuchsiaflower Gooseberry

Sourcesevery claim on this page

GBIF (iNaturalist Research-grade Observations). Dated flowering annotations in California. Every record achieved iNaturalist quality grade Research, which is applied upstream at export. 10.15468/dl.wt38fd. Retrieved 2026-07-14.
World Flora Online Plant List. The accepted name. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.