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Ribes indecorum

White flowering currant and White Chaparral Currant.

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White Chaparral Currant, Ribes indecorum is native from southern Monterey Co., to San Diego, it used to be a common shrub throughout the Los Angeles basin and the Santa Monica Mountains. - grid24_24
White Chaparral Currant, Ribes indecorum is native from southern Monterey Co., to San Diego, it used to be a common shrub throughout the Los Angeles basin and the Santa Monica Mountains. - grid24_24
White chaparral currant, Ribes indecorum, berries and Anna hummingbird - grid24_24
Anna Hummingbird working the flowers of White Chaparral currant - grid24_24
An Anna Hummingbird working the flowers of White currant, Ribes indecorum - grid24_24
Ribes indecorum, White Chaparral Currant, in full flower in the chaparral of central California. - grid24_24
White chaparral currant  - grid24_24
A moth working the flowers of Ribes indecorum, White Chaparral Currant - grid24_24
White Chaparral Currant, Ribes indecorum play movie
Ribes indecorum, or White chaparral currant is a deciduous shrub that grows to six feet or so. White flowering cuurant makes showy sprays of white under our oaks in Jan.-Mar. . Native to the south coast ranges, its northern range stops in the area of the Santa Margarita Nursery.(Not Rancho, Santa Margarita). It is native in the nursery. It likes sun to part shade. Commonly growing in the shade of large oaks, along seasonal creeks and on north and east slopes. Its flowers are fragrant. This Ribes is drought tolerant to the extreme. It is flowering now in a flower bed in which Fallugia died of drought. White flowering currant will tolerate garden conditions and is a bird and Hummingbird plant. Click here for more about California Currants and Gooseberries


Ribes indecorum is great for a bird garden.
Foliage of Ribes indecorum is deciduous and has fragrance.
Flower of Ribes indecorum has color white.
Fruit of Ribes indecorum is edible.

Communities for Ribes indecorum:Chaparral and Coastal Sage Scrub.

ph: 6.00 to 8.00
usda: 5 to 10
height[m]: 1.00 to 2.00
width[m]: 1.00 to 1.00
rainfall[cm]: 31.00 to 77.00

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