Ribes indecorum - White flowering currant

White flowering currant (Ribes indecorum) is a deciduous shrub of south coast-range chaparral in California, bearing fragrant white flower sprays under oaks in winter, with edible fruit. It grows 1-2 m tall and about 1 m wide.¹

Inputs

• Hardiness zone 5¹
• Hardiness zone 6¹
• Hardiness zone 7¹
• Hardiness zone 8¹
• Hardiness zone 9¹
• Hardiness zone 10¹
• Full sun¹
• Semi-shade¹

Outputs

• Human food¹

Type

• Ribes spp. - Currant
• Shrub
• Deciduous

Functions

• Fire resistance²
• Drought-tolerance¹
• Wildlife habitat¹

Dimension	At maturity
Height (m)	1-2
Diameter (m)	1

Footnotes

1. Ribes indecorum, White flowering currant | Las Pilitas Nursery Native Plant Database ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶ ↩⁷ ↩⁸ ↩⁹ ↩¹⁰ ↩¹¹ ↩¹²

2. Leaf burn times of California native plants, Las Pilitas Nursery, 2005 propane-torch ignition trial, live-leaf ignition time >60 seconds ↩