Wildlife

Red flowering currant

Ribes sanguineum
Habitat
Cowlitz River
Conservation
Secure

Scarlet flowers make this an unusual currant and useful in horticulture. Glandular black berries make fruit unpalatable.

Journal References

15 journal entries mention Red flowering currant

Aug 2 1805
Lewis: August 2, 1805
... to be excellent the courrant grows very much like the red currant common to the gardens in the atlantic states tho the leaf is somewhat different and the growth tal...
Aug 3 1805
Lewis: August 3, 1805
...leafed or small willow, the small honeysuckle, rosebushes, currant, serviceberry, and goosbery bushes; also a small species of berth in but small quantities the leaf...
Aug 4 1805
Lewis: August 4, 1805
...er and appears as if it might be navigated some miles. the currant is not rapid nor the water very clear; the banks are low and the bed formed of stone and gravel. ...
Aug 11 1805
Lewis: August 11, 1805
...d. the principal growth is willow with the narrow leaf and Currant bushes. they encamped this evening on the upper point of a large Island near the Stard. shore.-
Aug 13 1805
Lewis: August 13, 1805
..., also the red willow Choke Cherry service berry and a few currant bushes such as were common on the Missouri. these people had been attacked by the Minetares of For...
Aug 16 1805
Lewis: August 16, 1805
...catiring small pine on the hills. willow service berry and currant bushes were the growth of the river bottoms. they geatherd considerable quantities of service ber...
Aug 23 1805
Lewis: August 23, 1805
...re than ten days. the bends of the river are short and the currant beats from side to side against the rocks with great violence. the river is about 100 yds. wide an...
Mar 13 1806
Lewis: March 13, 1806
...r. they resemble very much at a little distance the common currants of our gardens but are more yellow. this fish is sometimes red along the sides and belley near th...
Apr 2 1806
Lewis: April 2, 1806
...in blume. the large leafed thorn has also disappeared. the red flowering currant is found here in considerable quantities on the uplands. the hunters inform me that there are exte...
Apr 10 1806
Lewis: April 10, 1806
...iver which is here about 400 yds. wide the rapidity of the currant was such that it boar us down a considerable distance notwithstanding we employed five oars. on en...
Apr 12 1806
Lewis: April 12, 1806
...f maple, the purple haw, a small speceis of cherry; purple currant, goosberry, red willow, vining and white burry honeysuckle, huckkle burry, sacacommis, two speceis...
Apr 16 1806
Lewis: April 16, 1806
...ngers to me which I also preserved, among others there is a currant which is now in blume and has yellow blossom something like the yellow currant of the Missouri bu...
Apr 30 1806
Lewis: April 30, 1806
...he crimson haw, redwillow, sweetwillow, chokecherry yellow currants, goosberry, whiteberryed honeysuckle rose bushes, seven bark, and shoemate. I observed the corng...
Jul 10 1806
Lewis: July 10, 1806
...ndant of the common red kind and are begining to ripen. no currants on this river. both species of the prickly pears just in blume.
Jul 12 1806
Lewis: July 12, 1806
...ly 1805 saw the brown thrush, pigeons, doves &c. the yellow Currants begining to ripen.

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