Red Flowering Currant
Ribes sanguineum
Blooms that range from dark to light pink and sometimes white cover this plant from March to June, making it one of the showiest native shrubs available. Excellent in a hedgerow, Red Flowering Currant is attractive to hummingbirds and other pollinators. Useful as a landscape feature and as an upland restoration species, it has multiple trunks and an upright spreading form.
- Mature height: 6′ to 10′
- Mature width: 6′ to 10′
- Light conditions: sun to part shade
- Soil: well-drained; dry to moist
- Sold in bundles of ten bare-root plants, 12″+ tall
- $20.00 per bundle
Bare-root plants are dug when they are dormant and are sold without soil around the roots, packaged in plastic bags to keep them moist.
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