Golden currant
Ribes aureum Pursh
- light
- Any light
- water
- Little
- tall
- 2.1 m
- wide
- 2.1 m
Grossulariaceae
Formerly Chrysobotrya aurea, Siphocalyx aureus
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.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- ShrubKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Canada to W. & C. U.S.A.Kew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Sun or shadeRead from Rogers Gardens, one source
- Height
- 2.1 mRead from Rogers Gardens, one source
- Spread
- 2.1 mRead from Rogers Gardens, one source
- Water
- Little: takes droughtRead from Rogers Gardens, one source
- Flowers
- YellowRead from Rogers Gardens, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -45.6 °C (USDA zone 2a)Read from Rogers Gardens, not yet checkedOne source. Checker: Rogers Gardens page does not state -45.6: it gives only a hardiness zone, no temperature
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- root
- RIBAUR, nanhólwa, pangwabuhia
- French
- Groseillier doré, gadellier doré
- Czech
- meruzalka zlatá
- Russian
- Смородина золотистая
- Norwegian Bokmål
- gullrips
- Finnish
- kultaherukka
- Lithuanian
- Auksuotasis serbentas
- Swedish
- gullrips
- Estonian
- kuldsõstar, Kuldsõstar
- Chinese
- 金茶藨子, 香茶藨子
- Chinese (China)
- 金茶藨子
- Dutch
- Gele ribes
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
- Rogers Gardens, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 3.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-26, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-26, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-26, CC0
- 3D model: Ribes aureum (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.