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prickly currant (Ribes lacustre)
Photo: (c) Syd Cannings, some rights reserved (CC BY) (CC BY), via iNaturalist. Species-typical, not necessarily this cultivar.

prickly currant

Ribes lacustre · Grossulariaceae · all Ribes records · also called Currant, Prickly · Wikipedia

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Form
shrub
Mature height
~3 ft
Rated in
British Columbia
On this lot

1. Fire evidence and conditions

Fire evidence
Mixed evidence — location does not change the cited classification.
Placement evidence
1 source placement record; source schemes remain separate.
Evidence regions
British Columbia

2. Why this plant is relevant here

State distribution
Documented in AK, CA, CO, CT, ID, MA, ME, MI, MN, MT, NH, NJ, NV, NY, OR, PA, RI, SD, UT, VA, VT, WA, WI, WV, WY.
Native range
Current cited native range in AK, CA, CO, CT, ID, IN, MA, ME, MI, MN, MT, NH, NJ, NM, NV, NY, OR, PA, RI, SD, UT, VA, VT, WA, WI, WV, WY.
USDA hardiness
An exact source temperature is retained below the published zone scale; no zone is invented.

3. Legal, ecological, and broader status

How to read this page

The status above is computed from the cited rows below: independent recommendations can support a fire-resistant result, an avoid row can produce keep-away, and disagreement stays visible as conflict. Placement notes preserve each source’s own scheme rather than translating unlike rules into one scale. This is evidence about a plant, not permission to plant it in every part of the defensible space; Zone 0 remains noncombustible.

Native and introduced range evidence

These are exact U.S. botanical-area records from the cited range source. Native and introduced describe biogeographic relationship, not fire performance or planting approval. Doubtful and extinct rows stay visible but do not count as current presence.

Current native

27

exact source areas

Current introduced

0

exact source areas

Qualified

0

doubtful or extinct source rows

27 native source areas · World Checklist of Vascular Plants, version 16 v16, as of 2026-06-04
  • Alaska (AK)
  • California (CA)
  • Colorado (CO)
  • Connecticut (CT)
  • Idaho (ID)
  • Indiana (IN)
  • Massachusetts (MA)
  • Maine (ME)
  • Michigan (MI)
  • Minnesota (MN)
  • Montana (MT)
  • New Hampshire (NH)
  • New Jersey (NJ)
  • New Mexico (NM)
  • Nevada (NV)
  • New York (NY)
  • Oregon (OR)
  • Pennsylvania (PA)
  • Rhode I. (RI)
  • South Dakota (SD)
  • Utah (UT)
  • Virginia (VA)
  • Vermont (VT)
  • Washington (WA)
  • Wisconsin (WI)
  • West Virginia (WV)
  • Wyoming (WY)

The lossless worldwide derivative is retained once in the research corpus; object pages repeat only exact U.S. areas needed by the local lens. The JSON twin carries the same page assertions.

Plant hardiness evidence

These values describe the plant source. Your ZIP zone comes from the separate 2023 USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map. Whole-zone values stay whole-zone, and a single unresolved value is not treated as a tolerance range. Different source boundaries stay separate: overlapping statements are compared independently, while only ranges with no shared zone are called a conflict.

Where its sources say to plant it

Placement rules below use each source's own distances or named zones, tied to its rating. They are not interchangeable with the directory's current Zone 0 guidance.

The evidence

Grouped by what each source concluded. Primary evidence rated the plant itself (a lab, field program, or original curation); corroboration compiled or republished another source's rating and resolves to its root lineage.

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Corroboration (1 rows from 1 source)

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Last verified 2026-08-23. JSON (CC BY 4.0)

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Ribes lacustre (Currant, Prickly). FireApproved. https://fireapproved.com/plants/ribes-lacustre/. Last verified 2026-08-23.