Mountain Currant
Ribes alpinum L.
- light
- Any light
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 1.5 m
- wide
- 1.7 m
Grossulariaceae
Also called Alpine currant, Mountain currant
Formerly Grossularia alpestris, Liebichia alpina, Liebichia gottsteinii, Ribes bacciferum, and 9 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- ShrubKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Europe, Morocco, NE. Türkiye to N. IranKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Sun or shadeRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Height
- 1.2 m to 1.8 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Spread
- 1.2 m to 2.1 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Flowers
- Yellow, greenRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -45.6 °C (USDA zone 2a)Read from NC State Extension, one source
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Catalan
- cirerola, Cirerola
- French
- groseillier des Alpes, gadellier alpin, groseillier des alpes
- Finnish
- taikinamarja
- Spanish
- Grosella de montaña, Grosellero silvestre
- Czech
- rybíz alpínský
- Swedish
- Måbär
- Danish
- Fjeld-ribs, Fjeld-Ribs
- Dutch
- Alpenbes, alpenbes
- Norwegian Bokmål
- alperips
- Russian
- Смородина альпийская
- Lithuanian
- Kalninis serbentas
- Polish
- Porzeczka alpejska, porzeczka alpejska
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 2.5
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-26, CC0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-26, CC0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-26, CC BY
- 3D model: Ribes alpinum (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
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