Ribes indecorum

White-flowering currant

Family: Grossulariaceae · Type: shrub · Native

White-flowering currant is a California native shrub found in southern California regions including the Santa Catalina Mountains, southern coastal areas, Transverse Ranges, and Peninsular Ranges in chaparral and coastal-sage scrub at elevations of 20 to 1,760 meters. Flowering from December to March, this plant produces delicate white flowers in clusters of 10 to 25 blooms with pink bracts. Growing to less than 3 meters tall with erect stems lacking nodal spines, it forms a dense, compact shrub. Its thick leaves are 1 to 4 centimeters long, green and hairy on the upper surface, with white woolly undersides and finely serrated edges. The fruit is a 6 to 7 millimeter purple, hairy berry with stalked glands.

Habitat: Chaparral, coastal-sage scrub

Bloom period: Dec-Mar

Elevation: 20-1760 m

Bioregions: SCoRO, SCo, TR, PR

California counties: Los Angeles, Riverside, San Diego, San Bernardino, Orange, Santa Barbara, Siskiyou, San Luis Obispo, Ventura, Imperial, Monterey, Alpine

Data from The California Species Project — 14,000+ California species with verified data from CNPS, CDFW, USFWS, Jepson eFlora, Cal-IPC, and more.