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Wax Currant
Wax Currant
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Wax Currant (Ribes cereum) is a western North American native with small bright red to orange berries that have mildly sweet, slightly waxy flavour and feed birds and other wildlife.
Pink to white tubular flowers attract bees and hummingbirds. Adapted to dry rocky slopes and open woodland, Wax Currant is drought tolerant. Oak Summit Nursery started these plants from seed to evaluate them in our climate.
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Growing details
- Hardiness
- Zone 3Oak Summit nursery rating
- Mature size
- 3 to 6 ft
- Seed source
- US
- Site and soil
- Associated with dry, rocky slopes and coarse/open western habitats; Adapted to comparatively dry habitat
- Bloom
- Spring flowering in the Oregon State species account.Species reference; local conditions can vary
Cold hardinessZone 3 · Canadian maps for this plant
Zone 3 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