Home / Plants / Grow / Flowering currant
Flowering currant
Ribes
Your local evidence lens
Separate evidence questions, never one approval badge
A genus split is not a placement verdict. Set a ZIP to read the local documented split.
1. Fire evidence and conditions
- Fire evidence
- Fire-resistant — location does not change the cited classification.
- Fire-performance conditions
- 1 condition stated in cited fire-evidence rows.
- Fire ecology context
- No section-reviewed fire-ecology context is normalized.
- Placement evidence
- 6 source placement records; source schemes remain separate.
- Evidence regions
- Maryland, New Jersey, and West Virginia; Montana / Northern Rockies; Nevada / Great Basin; OR/WA/ID; Oregon; Oregon (Willamette Valley); Pacific Northwest (Oregon / Washington / Idaho); Utah / Intermountain West; Wyoming; Yavapai County, Arizona; northeastern Minnesota; southern Idaho / Intermountain; western WA
- Maintenance
- No sourced horticultural maintenance assertion is normalized; fire-test conditions do not supply maintenance advice.
Typed publication scope: 13 scopes across 11 cited fire sources
- Landscaping for Wildfire Defensible Space in Northeastern Minnesota (Firewise) · Official scoped edition
- Fire Resistance of Plants Master Database · Official scoped edition
- Firewise Plants for the Puget Sound Basin · Official scoped edition
- Firewise Landscaping Plants (Maryland, New Jersey, and West Virginia editions) · Official scoped edition
- Fire-Resistant Plants for Montana Landscapes (MontGuide MT200101AG) · Official scoped edition
- Fire-resistant Landscape Plants for the Willamette Valley (EM 9103) · Official scoped edition
- Fire-Resistant Plants for Home Landscapes (PNW 590) · Official scoped edition
- A Compilation of Good Plant Choices for Nevada's High Fire Hazard Areas (SP-05-16) · Official scoped edition
- Firewise Plants for Utah Landscapes (NR/FF/002) · Official scoped edition
- Firewise Landscaping · Official scoped edition
- Fire-Resistant and Fire-Prone Plants Common to Yavapai County (Bulletin 34) · Official scoped edition
2. Why this plant is relevant here
- State distribution
- Documented in ID, OR, WA.
- Native range
- No current cited or legacy state native range is normalized.
- Introduced / established
- No introduced or established row is normalized; that does not prove native status.
- USDA hardiness
- 2 applicable cited hardiness statements overlap but have different boundaries; compare each complete source row.
3. Legal, ecological, and broader status
- Legal-list status
- Set a location for an exact legal-list result; source silence is not clearance.
- Seed-list status
- Set a location to compare the separate state noxious-weed seed layer.
- Reported invasive here
- No ecological invasive report is normalized; that does not prove noninvasiveness.
- Broader regional context
- Aggregate AK, HI, and L48 evidence is shown only as regional context, never as an exact-state finding.
- Federal context
- Federal designations remain separate from state legal-list results.
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.
- Form
- shrub
- USDA hardiness
- Applicable source statements overlap but have different boundaries; compare each source
- Grows in
- ID, OR, WA
- Rated in
- Maryland, New Jersey, and West Virginia; Montana / Northern Rockies; Nevada / Great Basin; OR/WA/ID +9
- Family
- Grossulariaceae
- Evidence
- 13 cited sources
Plant hardiness evidence
-
Landscaping for Wildfire Defensible Space in Northeastern Minnesota (Firewise)
3–8 explicit range
-
Fire-Resistant Plants for Home Landscapes (PNW 590)
2–7 explicit range
Conditions in the fire evidence
Where its sources say to plant it
- Landscaping for Wildfire Defensible Space in Northeastern…: plantable 3-30 ft from a building
- Fire-Resistant Plants for Oregon Home Landscapes: Oregon
- Fire-resistant Landscape Plants for the Willamette Valley: Gooseberry and Currant profile (PDF page 128)
- Fire-resistant plant profile galleries: Flowering currant — Ribes spp.
- Fire Resistance of Plants Master Database: 70 ft minimum planting distance on flat terrain
- Firewise Landscaping Plants: Deciduous Shrubs
The evidence
Recommends (12)
-
Fire-Resistant Plants for Home Landscapes (PNW 590)
“listed fire-resistant”
-
Landscaping for Wildfire Defensible Space in Northeastern Minnesota (Firewise)
“Low flammability (UF Circ 1453 key)”
-
A Compilation of Good Plant Choices for Nevada's High Fire Hazard Areas (SP-05-16)
“listed by at least two cited sources”
Compilation marks: AZ1289, UCFPL 1997, CSU 6.305, UI Bulletin 67, MT200101AG, OSU FRN 6, USU NR/FF/002.
-
Firewise Plants for Utah Landscapes (NR/FF/002)
“listed as a firewise plant for Utah landscapes”
Source says the plant can be firewise when properly used and maintained. Source table name: Ribes species.
-
Fire-Resistant Plants for Montana Landscapes (MontGuide MT200101AG)
“listed fire-resistant”
Listed among fire-resistant plant species adapted to Montana.
-
Firewise Plants for the Puget Sound Basin
“Fire-resistant Landscape Plants”
Listed in the source's Shrubs table as Ribes spp. (Currant).
-
Fire-Resistant Plants for Oregon Home Landscapes
“Fire-Resistant Plant Materials for Oregon”
Ribes species (Flowering currant) is listed under “Shrubs—deciduous”. The guide says most listed plants require some irrigation during Oregon's dry summer months and must be maintained in a healthy condition.
-
Fire-resistant Landscape Plants for the Willamette Valley (EM 9103)
“fire-resistant plants that thrive in Willamette Valley growing conditions”
The shrubs & woody vines profile lists Ribes spp. as Gooseberry and Currant. The profile prints USDA Hardiness Zone: Varies by species.
-
Fire-resistant plant profile galleries
“Choose the right shrubs for your fire-resistant landscape”
The Flowering currant profile prints Ribes species. The gallery points to PNW 590 for complete details.
-
“Plants for a Firewise Landscape — Examples: Currant”
The article prints this taxon as an example beneath its fire-resistant or Firewise-landscape guidance.
-
Fire-Resistant and Fire-Prone Plants Common to Yavapai County (Bulletin 34)
“Fire-Resistant Plants”
Listed as Currant, Gooseberry — Ribes sp.. The bulletin says fire-resistant plants tend to resist ignition when irrigated and maintained, while fire-prone plants may ignite readily and burn intensely.
-
Firewise Landscaping Plants (Maryland, New Jersey, and West Virginia editions)
“relatively resistant to fire”
Listed as Ribes spp. (Currant, Gooseberry). The source says listed species exhibit stronger resistance to ignition by wildfires. Source comments: Prefers higher elevations. Shade tolerant
Mid-scale / conditional (1)
-
Fire Resistance of Plants Master Database
“70”
Living With Fire workbook row 1082 attributes this value to Idaho Database.