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Golden Currant Seeds
Golden Currant Seeds
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Golden Currant (Ribes aureum), also called Clove Currant, is a North American shrub with berries that ripen yellow, red, or black and can be eaten fresh or cooked.
It has three lobed aromatic leaves and fragrant yellow flowers in spring. Plants tolerate drought once established and grow in sun or partial shade.
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Starting this seed
- Cold2 monthsCold stratification
- SowAfter the cold stage
- Seed source
- Wyoming
- Hardiness
- Zone 2
- Mature size
- 3 to 6 ft
How to stratify seed
In the fridge. Put the seed in a bag with a damp medium such as peat moss, vermiculite, sand or coco coir. The medium is only there to hold moisture. Keep the bag in the fridge, above freezing, for the cold period shown, then sow.
Or outside. Sow the seed outdoors in the fall and let winter do the cold period.
The plant these seeds grow into
Growing details
- Native range
- Western North AmericaIn Canada from British Columbia to Saskatchewan
- Light
- Sun to shade
- Spread
- Suckers into coloniesGive it room
- Disease
- Can host white pine blister rust
Cold hardinessZone 2 · Canadian maps for this plant
Zone 2 and warmer
The map shows minimum winter hardiness. Soil, moisture and summer warmth also affect how a plant grows.
About these maps
Climate: Natural Resources Canada, 1991–2020. Provincial distribution: VASCAN via retained botanical research. Province outlines: Natural Earth, public domain.
Open Government Licence – Canada
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