Red Flowering Currant (Ribes sanguineum): Bundle of 10

Description

Bundle of 10

At a Glance: Harbingers of spring and hummingbirds Red Flowering Currant lights up dry open woods, rocky slopes, disturbed sites, and roadsides. It is an erect, unarmed, 3-10’shrub. Its crooked stems have a reddish-brown bark.

Leaves: Deciduous leaves are alternate, regularly or irregularly 5-lobed, with the lower surface paler and hairier than the upper.

Flowers: Flowers are a distinctive rose color that can vary from pale-pink to deep-red, and rarely white. Forming in erect to drooping clusters of 10-20 or more flowers. Commonly the flowers are a perfectly matching hue to the magenta markings on the hummingbirds that frequent it.

Fruit: small hairy strawberry to ½” across.

Growing Conditions:

References:

MacKinnon, A., Pojar, J., & Alaback, P. B. (1994). Plants of the Pacific Northwest coast: Washington, Oregon, British Columbia & Alaska. Richmond, Wash: Lone Pine Publishing.