Ribes nigrumL.

Black CurrantEuropean black currantblack currant

WFO wfo-0000405161 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Ribes nigrum, photographed by Yurii Basov
fig. a Yurii Basov, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-09 / obs. 204650520
Ribes nigrum, photographed by Yurii Basov
fig. b Yurii Basov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204441072
Ribes nigrum, photographed by Yurii Basov
fig. c Yurii Basov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 202989571
Ribes nigrum, photographed by Марина Садыкова
fig. d Марина Садыкова, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201345611
Ribes nigrum, photographed by Марина Садыкова
fig. e Марина Садыкова, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 197756520
Ribes nigrum, photographed by Svyatoslav Knyazev
fig. f Svyatoslav Knyazev, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 197694268
Ribes nigrum, photographed by Силаева Татьяна Борисовна
fig. g Силаева Татьяна Борисовна, CC0 1.0 / obs. 197307819
Ribes nigrum, photographed by Виктория Билоус
fig. h Виктория Билоус, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 195594119

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Native range 36 botanical countries

Regions where Ribes nigrum is native: Altay, Amur, Buryatiya, Chita, Irkutsk, Kazakhstan, Khabarovsk, Krasnoyarsk, Magadan, Mongolia, Primorye, Tadzhikistan, Turkmenistan, Tuva, West Siberia, Yakutiya, Baltic States, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Central European Russia, Czechia-Slovakia, Denmark, East European Russia, Finland, France, Germany, Netherlands, North European Russia, Northwest European Russia, Norway, NW. Balkan Pen., Poland, Romania, Sweden, Ukraine AltayAmurBuryatiyaChitaIrkutskKazakhstanKhabarovskKrasnoyarskMagadanMongoliaPrimoryeTadzhikistanTurkmenistanTuvaWest SiberiaYakutiyaBaltic StatesBelarusBelgiumBulgariaCentral European RussiaCzechia-SlovakiaDenmarkEast European RussiaFinlandFranceGermanyNetherlandsNorth European RussiaNorthwest European RussiaNorwayNW. Balkan Pen.PolandRomaniaSwedenUkraine
Native distribution of Ribes nigrum, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Baltic States BLT EUROPE
Belarus BLR
Belgium BGM
Bulgaria BUL
Central European Russia RUC
Czechia-Slovakia CZE
Denmark DEN
East European Russia RUE
Finland FIN
France FRA
Germany GER
Netherlands NET
North European Russia RUN
Northwest European Russia RUW
Norway NOR
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Poland POL
Romania ROM
Sweden SWE
Ukraine UKR
Altay ALT ASIA-TEMPERATE
Amur AMU
Buryatiya BRY
Chita CTA
Irkutsk IRK
Kazakhstan KAZ
Khabarovsk KHA
Krasnoyarsk KRA
Magadan MAG
Mongolia MON
Primorye PRM
Tadzhikistan TZK
Turkmenistan TKM
Tuva TVA
West Siberia WSB
Yakutiya YAK

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Flowering 86 in flower of 301 examined

Peak flowering in May. Each bar is the share of Ribes nigrum 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. 86 of 301 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 5 months have fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for them. 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.cgje2x.

Also published as 37 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Botrycarpum nigrum A.Rich.
  • Botrycarpum nigrum (L.) Spach
  • Botrycarpum obtusilobum Opiz
  • Botryocarpium nigrum (L.) Spach
  • Grossularia nigra (L.) Rupr.
  • Grossularia nigra Mill. ex Steud.
  • Ribes aconitifolium K.Koch
  • Ribes altaicum K.Koch
  • Ribes apiifolium K.Koch
  • Ribes bactonii Lavallée
  • Ribes boreale Turcz. ex Steud.
  • Ribes crispum K.Koch
  • Ribes cyathiforme Pojark.
  • Ribes intermedium Bercht. & J.Presl
  • Ribes kolymense (Trautv.) Kom.
  • Ribes nigrum f. apiifolium (G.Kirchn.) Rehder
  • Ribes nigrum f. chlorocarpum (Späth) Rehder
  • Ribes nigrum f. heterophyllum (Pépin) Rehder
  • Ribes nigrum f. incisum H.Lindb. ex Hiitonen
  • Ribes nigrum f. marmoratum (Mouill.) Rehder
  • Ribes nigrum f. subalpinum Krasnob.
  • Ribes nigrum f. xanthocarpum (Späth) Rehder
  • Ribes nigrum subsp. vulgare Ehrh.
  • Ribes nigrum unranked variegatum Kuntze

and 13 more.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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