List of Ribes species

This section comprises Alpine currants, dioecious species distributed through Eurasia

Flowers	Fruit	Scientific name	Distribution
		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[3]	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)

This section comprises North American species commonly known as ornamental currants

Flowers	Fruit	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

This section comprises Eurasian and American black currants

Flowers	Fruit	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

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