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Red Currant

Ribes rubrum

2,250Records since 2000
AprilPeak month
104Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan1
Feb5
Mar54
Apr414
May355
Jun346
Jul334
Aug134
Sep63
Oct39
Nov17
Dec0

GBIF records by month, 2000–2025 (all years combined).

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Worcestershire England418
2Norfolk England74
3Herefordshire, County of England69
4Essex England47
5Telford and Wrekin England44
6Oxfordshire England43
7Suffolk England41
8Highland Scotland30
9North Yorkshire England30
10Cambridgeshire England28
11Surrey England28
12West Berkshire England27
13Sefton England23
14Bracknell Forest England19
15York England17
1,561 England83 Scotland41 Wales3 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 104 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
2,250
Peak month
April
Counties with records
104
Scientific name
Ribes rubrum
Group
Flowering plants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
18,450
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Saxifragales
Family
Grossulariaceae
Genus
Ribes
Name with authority
Ribes rubrum L.
Contributing datasets
38

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q146661 · GBIF 2986097