26+ Ribes R Sanguineum Red Currant

They are followed by a heavy crop of long drooping clusters of medium to large edible bright red currants which ripen in mid summer. Ribes sanguineum flowering currants are one of the first flowers of spring and always alert me to the fact that the hummingbirds have arrived and it s time to get the feeders out.

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Ribes r sanguineum red currant

Red flowering currant ribes sanguineum by russ holmes. Sanguineum means blood red referring to the color of the flowers. The drooping clusters of light to deep pink flowers are one of the first things to bloom here in the pacific northwest happily corresponding to the time when hummingbirds are in migration to their eventual summer breeding grounds.

In the fall flowers give rise to blue black fruit with whitish bloom. Other common names include pink winter currant and blood currant. A more compact grower than most excellent as a hedge or in a mixed shrub border in native landscaping in cooler climates.

Although the flowers are usually a rosy or pale pink. It is also a deciduous shrub a very well known and beloved species of the northwest region which has a beautiful display of the caramine red flowers. Ribes sanguineum pursh rye beez sang gwin ee um names.

There are both red king edward vii and white white icicle flowering cultivars available in the trade. Blue black berries are a favorite of birds. Ribes is distributed across the northern hemisphere and in temperate south america.

You may find plants with flowers ranging from white to a deep red. Red flowering currant is in the grossulariaceae gooseberry family which contains only 1 genus ribes and approximately 120 species. Both hummingbirds and butterflies are attracted to the bloom.

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