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Mountain currant or alpine currant
Ribes alpinum
About
Ribes alpinum, known as mountain currant or alpine currant, is a small deciduous, dioecious shrub native to central and northern Europe from Finland and Norway south to the Alps and Pyrenees and Caucasus, Georgia; in the south of its range, it is confined to high altitudes. It is scarce in western Europe, in Britain being confined to a small number of sites in northern England and Wales.
- Family
- Grossulariaceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Ribes alpinum
- Slug
- ribes-alpinum
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Grossulariaceae
- Genus
- Ribes
- Species
- alpinum
- Wikidata QID
- Q149260
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 43
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