Index / Search / Ribes malvaceum
§1 Plant
Ribes malvaceum Sm.
vernacular chaparral currant — species · Grossulariaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Shrub
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Grossulariaceae DC.
- Genus
- Ribes
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
County-level range
· 31 counties across 1 state§3Cultivation
No cultivation specs.
USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 31 counties across 1 state.
California view state ↗ 31 N ▾
- Alameda 06001
- Amador 06005
- Calaveras 06009
- Contra Costa 06013
- Fresno 06019
- Glenn 06021
- Kern 06029
- Lake 06033
- Los Angeles 06037
- Marin 06041
- Mendocino 06045
- Merced 06047
- Monterey 06053
- Napa 06055
- Orange 06059
- Riverside 06065
- San Benito 06069
- San Bernardino 06071
- San Diego 06073
- San Francisco 06075
- San Luis Obispo 06079
- San Mateo 06081
- Santa Barbara 06083
- Santa Clara 06085
- Santa Cruz 06087
- Solano 06095
- Stanislaus 06099
- Tehama 06103
- Tuolumne 06109
- Ventura 06111
- Yolo 06113
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/RIMA ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/2986101 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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