White Chaparral Currant
Ribes indecorum
White chaparral currant brightens the southern California dry season with fragrant white flower clusters from winter into early spring, when pollinators most need them. Summer-deciduous and very drought-tolerant. Like other currants, the fruit is a traditional foraged food.
- Family
- Grossulariaceae
- Type
- shrub
- Lifespan
- perennial
- Height
- 3–8 ft
- Spacing
- 4–8 ft apart
- Light
- sun, part shade
- Soil moisture
- dry
- Soil pH
- neutral
- Bloom
- January, February, March, April, November, December
- Bloom colors
- white, green
- Wildlife value
- pollinators, hummingbirds, songbirds, larval host
- Caterpillar hosts
- ~99 butterfly & moth species
- Landscape uses
- specimen, hedge or screen, foundation
- Native states
- CA
Related native plants
More Ribes species
- Red Flowering Currant (Ribes sanguineum)
- Golden Currant (Ribes aureum)
- Wax Currant (Ribes cereum)
- Fuchsia-flowered Gooseberry (Ribes speciosum)
- Chaparral Currant (Ribes malvaceum)
- Pasture Gooseberry (Ribes cynosbati)