# List of Ribes species

This list of Ribes species shows many of the approximately 200 accepted species in the plant genus Ribes, the single genus in the Saxifragales family Grossulariaceae. Traditionally, these have been divided into a number of subgenera, such as subgenus Ribes (currants) and subgenus Grossularia (gooseberries).

## Subgenus Ribes L.
### Section Berisia Spach

This section comprises Alpine currants, dioecious species distributed through Eurasia
| Scientific name | Distribution |
| Ribes achurjani Mulk. | Armenia |
| Ribes acuminatum Wall. ex G.Don | India |
| Ribes armenum Pojark. | South Caucasus |
| Ribes alpinum L. – alpine currant | northern Europe from Finland and Norway south to the Alps and Pyrenees and Caucasus, Georgia |
| Ribes diacanthum Pall. – Siberian currant | (Russia, Mongolia, Korea, northeastern China (Heilongjiang, Jilin, Inner Mongolia) |
| Ribes giraldii Jancz. | China (E Gansu, Liaoning, Shaanxi, SW Shanxi.) |
| Ribes glabricalycinum L.T.Lu | China (Sichuan) |
| Ribes glabrifolium L.T.Lu | China (W Hubei, S Shaanxi) |
| Ribes glaciale Wallich – glacier currant | China (SE Gansu, Henan, W Hubei, Shaanxi, Sichuan, SE Xizang, NW Yunnan), Bhutan, N India, Kashmir, N Myanmar, Nepal, Sikkim |
| Ribes henryi Franch. | China (W. Sichuan, Hubei) |
| Ribes heterotrichum C.A.Mey. | Central Asia to Mongolia and N. Pakistan. |
| Ribes humile Jancz. | China (Sichuan) |
| Ribes hunanense Chang Y.Yang & C.J.Qi | China ( Guangxi, Hunan) |
| Ribes kialanum Jancz. | China (W. Sichuan, NW. Yunnan) |
| Ribes komarovii Pojark. | Russian Far East, northern and central China, North Korea |
| Ribes laurifolium Jancz. – evergreen currant | China (W. Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan) to Myanmar. |
| Ribes luridum Hook. & Thoms. – purple currant | Nepal to China (W. Sichuan, NW. Yunnan) |
| Ribes maximowiczii Batal. – common Korean currant | China (Heilongjiang, Jilin, E Liaoning),Japan, Korea, Russia |
| Ribes melananthum Boiss. & Hohen. | Iran |
| Ribes orientale Desf. – Siberian currant | China (W Sichuan, Xizang, NW Yunnan),Bhutan, India, Kashmir, Nepal, Russia; SW Asia, SE Europe |
| Ribes saxatile Pall. | China (Xinjiang), Russia |
| Ribes takare D.Don | China, Bhutan, N India, Kashmir, Myanmar, Nepal, Sikkim |
| Ribes tianquanense S.H.Yu & J.M.Xu | China (Sichuan) |
| Ribes pseudofasciculatum K.S.Hao | China (Xizhang, Sichuan, Qinghai) |
| Ribes pulchellum Turcz. | S. Siberia to N. China. |
| Ribes rubrisepalum L.T.Lu | China (Gansu, S Shaanxi, W Sichuan, NW Yunnan.) |
| Ribes tenue Jancz. | China ( E Gansu, W Henan, W Hubei, NW Hunan, SW Shaanxi, Sichuan, Yunnan) |
| Ribes vilmorinii Jancz. | China (Hebei, W Sichuan, NW Yunnan.) |
| Ribes xizangense L.T.Lu | China (Xizang) |

### Section Calobotrya (Spach) Jancz.

This section comprises North American species commonly known as ornamental currants
| Scientific name | Distribution |
| Ribes brandegeei Eastw. | Mexico |
| Ribes canthariforme Wiggins – Moreno currant | California |
| Ribes cereum Douglas – Squaw currant, wax currant, white field currant, whiskey currant | British Columbia, Alberta, and much of the western United States, from Washington, Oregon, and California east as far as the western Dakotas and the Oklahoma Panhandle |
| Ribes ceriferum Coville & Rose | Mexico (Durango and Chihuahua) |
| Ribes ciliatum Humb. & Bonpl. | Mexico |
| Ribes dugesii Greenm. | Mexico |
| Ribes indecorum Eastw. – white-flowered currant | Santa Barbara County in California south into northern Baja California. |
| Ribes malvaceum Sm. – Chaparral currant | California and northern Baja California |
| Ribes mescalerium Coville – Mescalero currant | southeastern New Mexico, western Texas, and the Mexican State of Chihuahua. |
| Ribes neglectum Rose | Mexico |
| Ribes nelsonii Coville & Rose | Mexico (Sonora, Chihuahua) |
| Ribes nevadense Kellogg – Sierra currant, Jaeger's currant, Nevada currant | California, Nevada, Oregon |
| Ribes orizabae Rose | Mexico (Veracruz) |
| Ribes pringlei Rose | Central & SW. Mexico. |
| Ribes grande Rose | Mexico (Puebla) |
| Ribes sanguineum Pursh – flowering currant, redflower currant, blood currant, sticky blood currant, blackseed blood currant, winter currant | western United States and Canada. |
| Ribes tortuosum Benth. | Mexico |
| Ribes viscosissimum Pursh – sticky currant | United States, Canada |
| Ribes wolfii Rothr. – Wolf's currant | northern Idaho, northeastern Oregon, and southeastern Washington. Utah, Colorado, Arizona, and New Mexico, Mexico |

### Section Coreosma (Spach) Jancz.

This section comprises Eurasian and American black currants
| Scientific name | Distribution |
| Ribes americanum Mill. – American blackcurrant, wild blackcurrant | Canada (from Alberta to Nova Scotia) and the northern United States (from New England to Washington, with additional populations in Colorado and New Mexico) |
| Ribes bracteosum Douglas ex Hook. – stink currant | southeastern Alaska to Mendocino County in California |
| Ribes dikuscha Fisch. ex Turcz. | Siberia to Russian Far East. |
| Ribes hudsonianum Richards – northern blackcurrant, Hudson Bay currant, western blackcurrant | Canada, from Quebec westwards; and parts of the United States (Alaska, the Great Lakes region, the northern Rockies, Cascades, Blue Mountains, and other parts of the Northwest) |
| Ribes janczewskii Pojark. | Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan |
| Ribes japonicum Maxim. – Japanese blackcurrant, thornless blackcurrant | Japan (Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku) |
| Ribes malvifolium Pojark. | Tadzhikistan |
| Ribes nigrum L. – Blackcurrant, European blackcurrant | northern Europe and northern Asia |
| Ribes procumbens Pall. – trailing redcurrant | Siberia to N. Korea, Japan (C. Honshu) |
| Ribes ussuriense Jancz. – Korean blackcurrant | Siberia to N. Korea, Japan (C. Honshu) |
| Ribes viburnifolium A.Gray – Island gooseberry | Southern California |

### Section Symphocalyx Berland.

| Flowers | Fruit | Scientific name | Distribution |
| | | Ribes aureum Pursh – buffalo currant, clove currant, golden currant. Includes well-known cultivar 'Gwen.' | Canada, most of the United States (except the southeast) and northern Mexico. |

### Section Grossularioides ( Jancz.) Rehd.

This section comprises spiny or Gooseberry-stemmed currants from North America
| Flowers | Fruit | Scientific name | Distribution |
| | | Ribes lacustre (Pers.) Poir. – black gooseberry, prickly currant, black swamp gooseberry | California to Alaska and across North America east to Pennsylvania and Newfoundland, and south as far as New Mexico. |
| | | Ribes montigenum McClat. – gooseberry currant | Washington south to California and east as far as the Rocky Mountains |

### Section Heritiera Jancz.

| Scientific name | Distribution |
| Ribes erythrocarpum Coville & Leiberg – Crater Lake currant | Cascade Mountains in the US State of Oregon |
| Ribes acerifolium T.J Howell – maple currant, mapleleaf currant | Canadian Province of British Columbia as well as to the northwestern United States (Washington, Idaho, Oregon) |
| Ribes glandulosum Grauer ex Weber – skunk currant, fetid currant | United States (Alaska, the Great Lakes region, the Appalachian Mountains, and the Northeast) |
| Ribes laxiflorum Pursh – trailing blackcurrant | from Alaska and Yukon south as far as northern California and New Mexico |

### Section Parilla Jancz.

| Flowers | Scientific name | Distribution |
| | Ribes andicola Jancz. | Colombia |
| | Ribes albifolium Ruiz & Pav. | Peru |
| | Ribes austroecuadorense Freire-Fierro | Ecuador |
| | Ribes chachapoyense Weigend & Breitkopf | Peru |
| | Ribes colandina Weigend | Peru |
| | Ribes contumazensis Weigend | Peru |
| | Ribes costaricense Weigend | Costa Rica |
| | Ribes cucullatum Hook. & Arn. | Argentina and Chile |
| | Ribes dombeyanum (Spach) Jancz. | Peru |
| | Ribes ecuadorense Jancz. | Colombia, Ecuador |
| | Ribes erectum Freire-Fierro | Colombia, Ecuador |
| | | Ribes fasciculatum Siebold & Zucc. – Japanese currant | China, Japan, and Korea, |
| | Ribes hirticaule J.F.Macbr. | Peru |
| | Ribes hirtum Willd. ex Roem. & Schult. | Colombia to Ecuador. |
| | Ribes incarnatum Wedd. | Peru to W. Bolivia. |
| | Ribes incertum J.F.Macbr. | Peru. |
| | Ribes integrifolium Phil. | Chile |
| | Ribes lehmannii Jancz. | Ecuador. |
| | Ribes luteynii Weigend | Ecuador |
| | Ribes macrobotrys Ruiz & Pav. | Peru |
| | Ribes macrostachyum Jancz. | Peru. |
| | Ribes magellanicum Jancz. | Chile and Argentina |
| | Ribes nanophyllum Freire-Fierro & L.Endara | Ecuador |
| | Ribes nitidissima Neger. | Chile |
| | Ribes ovalifolium Jancz. | Peru |
| | Ribes parvifolium Phil. | Chile. |
| | Ribes pentlandii Britton | Peru to W. Bolivia |
| | Ribes peruvianum Jancz. | Peru. |
| | Ribes polyanthes Phil. | Chile. |
| | Ribes praecox J.F.Macbr. | Peru |
| | Ribes punctatum Ruiz & Pav. | Chile |
| | Ribes ruizii Rehder. | Chile |
| | Ribes sanchezii Weigend | Peru. |
| | Ribes sardoum Martelli – Sardinian currant | Sardegna |
| | Ribes steinbachiorum Weigend & Binder | Bolivia |
| | Ribes sucheziense Jancz. | Bolivia |
| | Ribes tolimense Cuatrec. | Colombia |
| | Ribes trilobum Meyen. | Central & S. Central Chile. |
| | Ribes valdivianum Phil. | Chile |
| | Ribes weberbaueri Jancz. | Peru |

### Section Ribes L.

| Scientific name | Distribution |
| Ribes altissimum Turcz. ex Pojark. – tall currant | Mongolia, Russia (Siberia), China (Xinjiang) |
| Ribes biebersteinii Berland. ex DC. | E. Turkey to NW. Iran. |
| Ribes griffithii Hook.f. & Thomson | Nepal to China (W. Sichuan, NW. Yunnan) |
| Ribes himalense Royle ex Decne.– smooth rock currant | Pakistan to SW China |
| Ribes latifolium Jancz. – broadleaf currant | China (S. Jilin) to N. Korea, Sakhalin to N. Japan |
| Ribes longeracemosum Franch. – Tibet thornless blackcurrant | China (Sichuan, Yunnan, W. Hubei). |
| Ribes mandshuricum (Maxim.) Kom. | Russian Far East to N. & E. Central China and Korea. |
| Ribes meyeri Maxim. – Meyer's currant | Central Asia to Mongolia and NE. Afghanistan |
| Ribes moupinense Franch. | Central & S. China. |
| Ribes multiflorum Kit. – manyflower currant | Central Italy, Balkan Peninsula to W. Central Turkey |
| Ribes pallidiflorum Pojark. | northeastern China to Russia |
| Ribes petraeum Wulf. – rock currant, rock redcurrant, Bieberstein's rock currant | Europe |
| Ribes rubrum L. – redcurrant, white currant | Europe |
| Ribes sachalinense (F.Schmidt) Nakai | Sakhalin to Japan (Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku). |
| Ribes setchuense Jancz. | China (Sichuan, SE. Gansu) |
| Ribes spicatum Robson – Nordic redcurrant, Nordic currant, downy currant | northern Europe and northern Asia |
| Ribes soulieanum Jancz. | Tibet to China (NW. Yunnan). |
| Ribes triste Pall. – northern redcurrant or swamp redcurrant, wild redcurrant | Canada and the northern United States, as well as in eastern Asia (Russia, China, Korea, Japan) |
| Ribes turbinatum Pojark. | Kazakhstan |

## Subgenus Grossularia (Mill.) Pers.
### Section Grossularia(Mill.) Nutt.

| Scientific name | Distribution |
| Ribes aciculare Sm. – needle-spined gooseberry | northern China, Siberia. |
| Ribes alpestre Wall. ex Decne. | from Afghanistan to SW China |
| Ribes ambiguum Maxim. | China South-Central, Japan |
| Ribes burejense F.Schmidt | China, N Korea, Mongolia, Russia |
| Ribes curvatum Small – Granite gooseberry | United States (Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Arkansas, Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama) |
| Ribes cynosbati L. – prickly gooseberry, eastern prickly gooseberry, dogberry, dog bramble | eastern and central United States and Canada |
| Ribes divaricatum Douglas – spreading gooseberry, wild gooseberry, coast gooseberry, coastal black gooseberry, Parish's gooseberry, Worcesterberry | western North America from British Columbia to California |
| Ribes echinellum (Cov.) Rehder – Miccosukee gooseberry | Florida, South Carolina |
| Ribes formosanum Hayata | Taiwan. |
| Ribes grossularioides Maxim. – Japanese gooseberry, catberry | Japan |
| Ribes hirtellum Michx. – North American gooseberry, hairystem gooseberry, currant gooseberry | Canada and the northern United States |
| Ribes horridum Rupr. – thorny currant | Russian Far East to N. Korea, Japan |
| Ribes inerme Rydb. – whitestem gooseberry, Klamath gooseberry | British Columbia to California and westward to the Rocky Mountains |
| Ribes missouriense Nutt. – Missouri gooseberry | north-central United States (Great Lakes, upper Mississippi and lower Missouri Valleys) |
| Ribes niveum Lindl. – snow gooseberry, slender-branched gooseberry | western United States (Washington, Idaho, Oregon, and Nevada with isolated populations in Colorado and New Mexico) |
| Ribes oxyacanthoides L. – American mountain gooseberry, Canadian gooseberry, stream gooseberry, Henderson's gooseberry, Idaho gooseberry | Alaska through much of Canada and the western and north-central United States |
| Ribes rotundifolium Michx. – Appalachian gooseberry, round-leaved gooseberry | Massachusetts and the Appalachian Mountains south as far as South Carolina and Tennessee |
| Ribes sinanense F.Maek. – Chinese gooseberry | Japan (C. Honshu) |
| Ribes stenocarpum Maxim. – narrow-fruited currant | S. & E. Qinghai to China Gansu, Shaanxi, NW. Sichuan |
| Ribes uva-crispa L. – gooseberry, wild gooseberry, European gooseberry, English gooseberry | Europe, the Caucasus and northern Africa |

## Subgenus Hesperia A.Berger

| Scientific name | Distribution |
| Ribes amarum McClatchie – bitter gooseberry | California |
| Ribes californicum Hook. & Arn. – Hillside gooseberry, California gooseberry, Monterey gooseberry | California |
| Ribes cruentum Greene – shinyleaf currant, Oregon currant | California, Oregon |
| Ribes leptosma (Coville) Fedde | California |
| Ribes menziesii Pursh – Canyon gooseberry, Menzies' gooseberry | California and Oregon |
| Ribes roezlii Reg. – Sierra gooseberry, Roezl's gooseberry | California, its distribution extending east into Nevada and north into Oregon |
| Ribes victoris Greene – Victor's gooseberry | California |

## Subgenus Lobbia A. Berger
### Section Lobbia

| Scientific name | Distribution |
| Ribes binominatum A.Heller – ground gooseberry | northern California and western Oregon. |
| Ribes lasianthum Greene – alpine gooseberry | California, Nevada |
| Ribes leptanthum A.Gray – trumpet gooseberry | Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, and Utah |
| Ribes lobbii A.Gray – gummy gooseberry | United States (Siskiyou Mountains, eastern Columbia Gorge, Crater Lake National Park, Mount Rainier National Park, Olympic National Park) and British Columbia in Canada |
| Ribes marshallii Greene – Hupa gooseberry | southern Oregon and northern California |
| Ribes microphyllum Kunth | Guatemala, Mexico |
| Ribes pinetorum Greene – orange currant | Arizona and New Mexico. |
| Ribes quercetorum Greene – rock gooseberry | California |
| Ribes sericeum Eastw. – Lucia gooseberry | California |
| Ribes tularense (Coville) Fedde. – Tulare gooseberry | southern California |
| Ribes velutinum Greene – desert gooseberry, Gooding's gooseberry | Montana, Idaho, Washington, Oregon, Utah, Nevada, California, and Arizona |
| Ribes watsonianum Koehne – spring gooseberry | Washington and Oregon. |

### Section Robsonia Berland.

| Flowers | Fruit | Scientific name | Distribution |
| | | Ribes speciosum Pursh – fuchsia-flowered gooseberry | southern California and Baja California |
| | | Ribes thacherianum (Jeps.) Munz | coast of California |

## Hybrids

| Scientific name | Parents |
| Ribes x bethmontii Jancz. | Ribes malvaceum x R. sanguineum |
| Ribes × culverwellii | Ribes nigrum x Ribes uva-crispa |
| Ribes × futurum Jancz. | Ribes rubrum × Ribes warszewiczii |
| Ribes x gonduini Jancz. | Ribes petraeum × Ribes rubrum |
| Ribes × gordonianum Lem. | Ribes odoratum × Ribes sanguineum |
| Ribes × holocericeum Otto & A.Dietr. | Ribes petraeum × Ribes spicatum |
| Ribes × houghtonianum Jancz. | Ribes rubrum × Ribes spicatum |
| Ribes × koehneanum Jancz. | Ribes multiflorum × Ribes rubrum |
| Ribes × nidigrolaria Rud.Bauer & A.Bauer – Jostaberry | Ribes divaricatum x Ribes uva-crispa |
| Ribes × van-fleetianum (A.Berger) Standl. | Ribes missouriense × Ribes uva-crispa. |
| Ribes x varoi Blanca | Ribes uva-crispa × Ribes petraeum |