Ribes indecorum
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|image_caption = A white-flowered currant growing in the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area, California.
|genus = Ribes
|species = indecorum
|authority = Eastw.Originally described and published in the Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences ser. 3, 2: 243. 1902. {{ cite web |url=http://www.ipni.org:80/ipni/idPlantNameSearch.do?id=792769-1 |title=Plant Name Details for Ribes indecorum |work=IPNI |accessdate=July 20, 2010}}
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Ribes indecorum is a species of currant known by the common names white-flowered currant and white chaparral currant. It is native to the southern California Coast Ranges, Transverse Ranges, and Peninsular Ranges, from around Santa Barbara County in California south into northern Baja California.
It grows in local habitats such as California chaparral and woodlands and coastal sage scrub.
Description
Ribes indecorum is an erect perennial shrub{{Cite web|title=Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center - The University of Texas at Austin|url=https://www.wildflower.org/plants/result.php?id_plant=RIIN|access-date=2022-01-02|website=www.wildflower.org}} approaching three meters in maximum height. The stem is fuzzy and glandular in texture. The deciduous leaves are 1 to 4 centimeters long. The thick, wrinkly blades are divided into three to five toothed lobes, and are hairy, glandular, and aromatic. The inflorescence is a loose raceme of 10 to 25 flowers. The flower is roughly tubular with the white or pink-tinged sepals spreading open to reveal smaller whitish petals inside. The fruit is a hairy, sticky purple berry under a centimeter wide.{{Cite web|title=White Flowering Currant, Ribes indecorum|url=https://calscape.org/Ribes-indecorum-(White-Flowering-Currant)|access-date=|website=calscape.org}}
Cultivation
Ribes indecorum is cultivated as an ornamental plant by specialty plant nurseries. It is planted in drought-tolerant, native plant, and wildlife gardens and natural landscaping projects.[http://www.laspilitas.com/nature-of-california/plants/ribes-indecorum Las Pilitas Nursery horticulture treatment: Ribes indecorum, White flowering currant] . accessed 1.28.2013
References
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External links
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- [http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/get_JM_treatment.pl?4450,4451,4469 Jepson Manual Treatment — Ribes indecorum]
- [http://calphotos.berkeley.edu/cgi/img_query?query_src=photos_index&where-taxon=Ribes+indecorum Ribes indecorum — U.C. Photo gallery]
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Category:Flora of Baja California
Category:Natural history of the California chaparral and woodlands
Category:Natural history of the California Coast Ranges
Category:Natural history of the Peninsular Ranges
Category:Natural history of the Santa Monica Mountains
Category:Natural history of the Transverse Ranges
Category:Plants described in 1902
Category:Garden plants of North America