- Family:
- Grossulariaceae DC.
- Genus:
- Ribes L.
Ribes rubrum L.

Native to:
Belgium, France, Germany, Great Britain, Netherlands, Spain
Introduced into:
Austria, Baltic States, British Columbia, Bulgaria, Central European Rus, Colorado, Connecticut, Corse, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, East European Russia, Finland, Hungary, Iceland, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Korea, Krym, Labrador, Maine, Manchuria, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, Myanmar, New Brunswick, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Norway, Nova Scotia, Ohio, Ontario, Pennsylvania, Poland, Prince Edward I., Québec, Rhode I., Saskatchewan, South European Russi, Sweden, Switzerland, Tadzhikistan, Tennessee, Turkey, Turkey-in-Europe, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming, Yugoslavia
- Grossularia rubra (L.) Scop.
- Ribes acerifolium K.Koch
- Ribes acidum Ehrh.
- Ribes albescens Poit. & Turpin
- Ribes albicans Poit. & Turpin
- Ribes albovirens Poit. & Turpin
- Ribes auriculatum Poit. & Turpin
- Ribes baicalense Turcz. ex Steud.
- Ribes carneum Poit. & Turpin
- Ribes domesticum Jancz.
- Ribes fleischmannii Rchb. ex K.Koch
- Ribes glabrum (Hedl.) Sennikov
- Ribes hladnickianum Freyer ex Steud.
- Ribes hortense Hedl.
- Ribes macrocarpum Jancz.
- Ribes officinarum Dum.Cours.
- Ribes pendulum Salisb.
- Ribes racemosum Poit. & Turpin
- Ribes rubrum var. virescens Regel
- Ribes sibiricum K.Koch
- Ribes sylvestre (Lam.) Mert. & W.D.J.Koch
- Ribes vinosum Dum.Cours.
- Ribes vulgare Lam.
- Ribesium rubrum (L.) Medik.
- English
- Red Currant, White Currant
Ribes rubrum L. appears in other Kew resources:
Date | Reference | Identified As | Barcode | Type Status | Has image? |
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Ross-Craig, S., United Kingdom | 11672.000 | No |
First published in Sp. Pl.: 200 (1753)
Accepted by
- Abdulina, S.A. (1999). Spisok Sosudistykn Rastenii Kazakhstana: 1-187. Academy of Sciences, Almaty, Kazakhstan.
- Ackerfield, J. (2015). Flora of Colorado: 1-818. BRIT Press.
- Davis, P.H. (ed.) (1972). Flora of Turkey and the East Aegean Islands 4: 1-657. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh.
- Delipavlov, D. & Cheshmedzhiev, I. (eds.) (2011). Opredelitel na rasteniiata v Bulgariia: 1-590. Akad. Isd. Agrar. Univers. Plovdiv.
- Flora of North America Editorial Committee (2009). Flora of North America North of Mexico 8: 1-585. Oxford University Press, New York, Oxford.
- Gilman, A.V. (2015). New flora of Vermont. Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden 110: 1-614.
- Gorchakovskii, P.L. & al. (1994). Opredelitel' sosudistykkhrastenii srednego Urala: 1-524. Nauka, Moscow.
- Hamlin, B.T. & Kittredge, W.T. (2014). New England note. Further discoveries in the Middlesex Fells. Rhodora. Journal of the New England Botanical Club 116: 224-227.
- Iwatsuki, K., Boufford, D.E. & Ohba, H. (eds.) (2001). Flora of Japan IIb: 1-550. Kodansha Ltd., Tokyo.
- Jalas, J., Suominen, J., Lampinen, R. & Kurtto, A.(eds.) (1999). Atlas Florae Europaeae. Distribution of vascular plants in Europe 12: 1-250.
- Kress, W.J., DeFilipps, R.A., Farr, E. & Kyi, D.Y.Y. (2003). A Checklist of the Trees, Shrubs, Herbs and Climbers of Myanmar. Contributions from the United States National Herbarium 45: 1-590. Smithsonian Institution.
- Mirek, Z., Piękoś-Mirkowa, H., Zając, A. & Zając, M (2020). Vascular plants of Poland an annotated checklist: 1-526. W. Szafer institute of botany, Polish academy of sciences, Krakow, Poland.
- Mohlenbrock, R.H. (2014). Vascular Flora of Illinois. A Field Guide, ed. 4: 1-536. Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale.
- Seregin, A.P. (2014). Flora of Vladimir Oblast, Russia: grid data analysis: 1-441. KMK schientific press, Moscow.
- Stace, C. (2019). New Flora of the British Isles ed. 4: 1-1266. C & M Floristics.
Literature
Kew Backbone Distributions
- Abdulina, S.A. (1999). Spisok Sosudistykn Rastenii Kazakhstana: 1-187. Academy of Sciences, Almaty, Kazakhstan.
- Ackerfield, J. (2015). Flora of Colorado: 1-818. BRIT Press.
- Chang, C.S., Kim, H. & Chang, K.S. (2014). Provisional checklist of vascular plants for the Korea peninsula flora (KPF): 1-660. DESIGNPOST.
- Davis, P.H. (ed.) (1972). Flora of Turkey and the East Aegean Islands 4: 1-657. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh.
- Delipavlov, D. & Cheshmedzhiev, I. (eds.) (2011). Opredelitel na rasteniiata v Bulgariia: 1-590. Akad. Isd. Agrar. Univers. Plovdiv.
- Flora of North America Editorial Committee (2009). Flora of North America North of Mexico 8: 1-585. Oxford University Press, New York, Oxford.
- Gilman, A.V. (2015). New flora of Vermont. Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden 110: 1-614.
- Gorchakovskii, P.L. & al. (1994). Opredelitel' sosudistykkhrastenii srednego Urala: 1-524. Nauka, Moscow.
- Hamlin, B.T. & Kittredge, W.T. (2014). New England note. Further discoveries in the Middlesex Fells. Rhodora. Journal of the New England Botanical Club 116: 224-227.
- Iwatsuki, K., Boufford, D.E. & Ohba, H. (eds.) (2001). Flora of Japan IIb: 1-550. Kodansha Ltd., Tokyo.
- Jalas, J., Suominen, J., Lampinen, R. & Kurtto, A.(eds.) (1999). Atlas Florae Europaeae. Distribution of vascular plants in Europe 12: 1-250.
- Korovin, E.P. & Vvedensky, A.I. (eds.) (1955). Flora Uzbekistana 3: 1-824. Izd-va Akademii nauk Uzbekskoi SSR, Tashkent.
- Kress, W.J., DeFilipps, R.A., Farr, E. & Kyi, D.Y.Y. (2003). A Checklist of the Trees, Shrubs, Herbs and Climbers of Myanmar. Contributions from the United States National Herbarium 45: 1-590. Smithsonian Institution.
- Mirek, Z., Piękoś-Mirkowa, H., Zając, A. & Zając, M (2020). Vascular plants of Poland an annotated checklist: 1-526. W. Szafer institute of botany, Polish academy of sciences, Krakow, Poland.
- Mohlenbrock, R.H. (2014). Vascular Flora of Illinois. A Field Guide, ed. 4: 1-536. Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale.
- Nikitin, V.V. (ed.) (1949). Flora Turkmenii 4: 1-364. Turkmenskoe gosudarstvennoe izd., Ashkhabad.
- Ovczinnikov, P.N. (ed.) (1975). Flora Tadzhikskoi SSR 4: 1-576. Izd-vo Akademii nauk SSSR, Moskva.
- Seregin, A.P. (2014). Flora of Vladimir Oblast, Russia: grid data analysis: 1-441. KMK schientific press, Moscow.
- Shevtsov, V. (2022). Personal Communication on South European Russia. 1.
- Wu, Z. & Raven, P.H. (eds.) (2001). Flora of China 8: 1-506. Science Press (Beijing) & Missouri Botanical Garden Press (St. Louis).
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