Ribes sanguineum (Red-flowering Currant)

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Ribes sanguineum, photographed by Randal — fig. a Randal, CC0 1.0 / 2022-05-20 / obs. 199236059

Ribes sanguineum, photographed by Shane Johnson — fig. b Shane Johnson, CC0 1.0 / obs. 198973962

Ribes sanguineum, photographed by Jeremiah Degenhardt — fig. c Jeremiah Degenhardt, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 199380111

Ribes sanguineum, photographed by derek_onley — fig. e derek_onley, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 198274076

Ribes sanguineum, photographed by James H. Thomas — fig. f James H. Thomas, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 196660551

Ribes sanguineum, photographed by Lyrae — fig. g Lyrae, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 196535071

Every figure is a research-grade observation under CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA, rehosted with the photographer’s name, the licence and the observation it came from. Photographs under a NonCommercial licence are excluded from this site and are never stored, which costs us a great many pictures and is not negotiable.

Flowering n = 4,096 observations

144

494

1244

1527

339

149

Flowering observations of Ribes sanguineum by month
Month	Observations
Jan	144
Feb	494
Mar	1244
Apr	1527
May	339
Jun	42
Jul	15
Aug	75
Sep	149
Oct	44
Nov	6
Dec	17

Peak flowering in Apr, from 4,096 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 32 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.

Calobotrya sanguinea Spach
Coreosma sanguinea Spach
Ribes albidum Paxton
Ribes alceifolium Kunze ex Walp.
Ribes alpestre var. commune Jancz.
Ribes augustum Douglas ex W.H.Baxter
Ribes carneum G.Nicholson
Ribes davianum Dippel
Ribes glutinosum Benth.
Ribes glutinosum f. albidum (Paxton) Rehder
Ribes glutinosum var. deductum Jancz.
Ribes glutinosum var. melanocarpum Greene
Ribes megalanthos Simonk.
Ribes sanctae-luciae Jancz.
Ribes sanguineum f. albescens (Rehder) Rehder
Ribes sanguineum f. atrorubens (Loudon) Rehder
Ribes sanguineum f. brocklebankii (Bean) Rehder
Ribes sanguineum f. carneum Dippel
Ribes sanguineum f. splendens (Barbier) Rehder
Ribes sanguineum var. albescens Rehder
Ribes sanguineum var. albidum (Paxton) G.Kirchn.
Ribes sanguineum var. album Gorman
Ribes sanguineum var. atrorubens Loudon
Ribes sanguineum var. atrosanguineum Bosse

and 8 more.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.