Golden Currant

Golden Currant

Ribes aureum

This native fragrant shrub with spicy-sweet clove-scented yellow flowers in spring, red-to-black edible fruit in summer, and vivid orange-red fall colour: a four-season native wildlife plant.

  • Spicy-sweet, clove-fragrant yellow flowers in early spring, an important early pollinator resource
  • Fruit ripens from red through black in summer, edible and attractive to birds
  • Vivid orange-red fall colour
  • Native to North America, excellent cold hardiness and adaptability to dry soils
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Plant Characteristics

Sunlight
Partial shade
Soil Type
Loam, Sandy
Soil Moisture
Average, Dry, Well-drained
Drought Tolerant
Hardiness Zone
4 – 4
Mature Height (meters)
1.0 – 2.0
Mature Spread (meters)
0.75 – 2.0
Growth Rate
Medium
Flower Colour
Yellow
Foliage Colour
Green
Fall Colour
Orange
Bloom Time
Spring
Habit
Upright
Pollinator Friendly
Fragrant

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