Ribes nevadense

Mountain pink currant

Family: Grossulariaceae · Type: shrub · Native

Mountain pink currant is a California native shrub found in the Klamath Ranges, northern Coast Ranges, Cascade Range, Sierra Nevada, Tehachapi Mountains, Transverse Ranges, Peninsular Ranges, and Warner Mountains in forest margins at elevations of 600 to 3,050 meters. Flowering from May to June, this plant produces white petals with pink to red sepals in dense clusters with 8 to 20 flowers. Growing to less than 2 meters tall with no nodal spines, the shrub has an upright to pendulous form. Its leaves are 3 to 8 centimeters long, coarsely to finely toothed, mostly glabrous on the upper surface with sessile glands and occasional hairs on the lower surface. The fruit is a 6 to 8 millimeter blue-black glaucous berry with glandular hairs.

Habitat: Forest margins

Bloom period: May-Jun

Elevation: 600-3050 m

Bioregions: KR, NCoRH, CaR, SNH, Teh, TR, PR, Wrn

California counties: Los Angeles, San Bernardino, Plumas, Kern, Sierra, El Dorado, Riverside, Fresno, Tehama, Tuolumne, Placer, Lassen, Siskiyou, San Diego, Tulare, Shasta, Nevada, Alpine, Mariposa, Calaveras, Ventura, Butte, Mono, Inyo, Modoc, Amador, Humboldt, Mendocino, Lake, Yuba, Glenn, Madera, Trinity, Del Norte

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