black currant
Ribes nigrum
RHS Plants for Pollinators
Garden uses
Attracts
Notes
Black currant (Ribes nigrum) is a shrub for a food garden and a pollinator garden. It grows wild from Europe to Siberia and Central Asia. Bees visit this plant, so it supports pollinators in your yard. Plant it where bees can reach it easily and you can watch them work. Give it some room so you can walk around it and tend it through the season.
Pairs well with Raspberry, Blueberry, and Sweet alyssum.
Native range
Europe, Central Asia, Altay, Amur, and 11 more places. See all 15
Europe, Central Asia, Altay, Amur, Buryatiya, Chita, Irkutsk, Khabarovsk, Krasnoyarsk, Magadan, NW. Balkan Pen., Primorye, Tadzhikistan, Tuva, and Yakutiya.