Golden Currant (Buffalo Currant)
Ribes aureum
Bird foodPollinator plant
(c) peganum, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA)
Growing it
| When | Flowers May to June; fruits July to August |
|---|---|
| Type | shrub |
| Sun | Full sun, partial shade |
| Water | Low |
| Soil | pH 6–8 |
| Hardiness | zone 2–8 |
| Mature height | 2 m |
| Mature spread | 2.25 m |
| Spacing | 1.5 m |
| Years to maturity | 3 |
| Bloom | May–Jun |
| Flower colour | Yellow checked against its Latin name |
| In bloom | May June |
| Fruit | Jul–Aug |
| Native to | AB, SK |
lobed leaves about 5 cm long; several stems from the base
Where it has been recorded
Which ecoregions the records fall in
- Moist Mixed Grassland south AB / SK: 236 records, high confidence
- Fescue Grassland south AB: 125 records, high confidence
- Mixed Grassland south AB / SK: 105 records, high confidence
- Aspen Parkland central AB / SK: 73 records, high confidence
- Boreal Transition central AB / SK: 5 records, low confidence
- Cypress Upland south AB / SK: 5 records, low confidence
- Northern Continental Divide south AB: 4 records, low confidence
These are counts of records collected somewhere in the region, which is the resolution of the evidence: the map above shows where inside it. A region with 3 records is not the same claim as one with three hundred, so the count travels with the region. A region missing from this list means nobody has recorded it there, which is not the same as the plant being absent. Records within 900 m of a border count for neither side, because the border is not drawn finely enough to say which one they are on. Source: GBIF occurrence search + PRESERVED_SPECIMEN pass, retrieved 2026-08-24. Boundaries digitised from the National Ecological Framework for Canada v2.2 (Ecological Stratification Working Group 1995), simplified to about 900 m for display: an outline is accurate to roughly a kilometre, not to the metre. How these counts are made.
See every observation, live and current, on GBIF or iNaturalist.
Documented animals
24 documented relationships.
nectar for
- Andrena candida Specimen records from ecdysis.org
- Andrena porterae Specimen records from ecdysis.org
- Andrena prunorum Specimen records from ecdysis.org
- Anise Swallowtail Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
- Black-tailed Bumble Bee Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
- Blue Orchard Mason Bee Specimen records from ecdysis.org
- Brown-belted Bumble Bee Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
- Brown-tailed Bumble Bee Specimen records from www.bumblebeewatch.org
- Central Bumble Bee Specimen records from www.bumblebeewatch.org
- Golden Northern Bumble Bee Specimen records from www.bumblebeewatch.org
- Habropoda cineraria Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
- Halictus tripartitus Specimen records from ecdysis.org
- Hunt's Bumble Bee Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
- Lasioglossum nevadense Specimen records from ecdysis.org
- Monarch Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
- Nevada Bumble Bee Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
- Nomada crotchii Specimen records from ecdysis.org
- Orange-banded Bumble Bee Specimen records from ecdysis.org
- Osmia atrocyanea Specimen records from ecdysis.org
- Osmia californica Specimen records from ecdysis.org
- Painted Lady Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
- Tricoloured Bumble Bee Specimen records from www.bumblebeewatch.org
- Two-ranked Bumble Bee Specimen records from www.bumblebeewatch.org
- Yellow-fronted Bumble Bee Specimen records from www.bumblebeewatch.org
Also worth knowing
Safety
Toxicity not assessed, absence of a warning is not a guarantee of safety
Edible parts
Fruit, flowers
Buying it
About $25–$50 per plant (estimate), usually stocked by garden centres. Estimate (shrub default); AB retail as of 2026
Where these numbers came from
- Flower detail: not verified, a genus-level estimate