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:''For the commune of the Ardèche in southern [[France]], see [[Ribes, Ardèche]].''
{{Taxobox
| color = lightgreen
| name = Ribes
| image = Gooseberry Ribes grossularia (detail).JPG
| image_caption = ''Ribes uva-crispa'' ([[gooseberry]])
| regnum = [[Plant]]ae
| divisio = [[Flowering plant|Magnoliophyta]]
| classis = [[Magnoliopsida]]
| ordo = [[Saxifragales]]
| familia = '''Grossulariaceae'''
| genus = '''''Ribes'''''
| genus_authority = [[Carolus Linnaeus|L.]]
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision =
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}}

'''''Ribes''''' is a [[genus]] of about 150 species of [[flowering plants]], usually treated as the only genus in the family '''Grossulariaceae'''. The genus is native throughout the temperate regions of the [[Northern Hemisphere]].

''Ribes'' includes the currants, including the edible currants ([[blackcurrant]], [[redcurrant]] and [[whitecurrant]]), [[gooseberry|gooseberries]], and many [[ornamental plant]]s. The ''Ribes'' currant should not be confused with the [[Zante currant]] [[grape]].

Currants are used as food plants by the [[larva]]e of some [[Lepidoptera]] species; see [[list of Lepidoptera which feed on Ribes]].

Seven [[subgenus|subgenera]] are recognised. A few taxonomists place the gooseberry species in a separate genus, ''Grossularia'', despite the [[Jostaberry]] gooseberry/blackcurrant [[hybrid]].

There are restrictions on growing ''Ribes'' species in many US states as they are a host for [[White Pine Blister Rust]].

;Selected species
*''[[Ribes aciculare]]'' Sm.
*''[[Ribes alpestris]]'' (Decne) A.Berger - Hedge Gooseberry
*''[[Ribes alpinum]]'' L. - Alpine Currant
*''[[Ribes ambiguum]]'' Maxim.
*''[[Ribes americanum]]'' Mill.
*''[[Ribes aureum]]'' Pursh - Golden Currant
*''[[Ribes bracteosum]]'' Douglas ex Hook. - Californian Blackcurrant
*''[[Ribes burejense]]'' F.Schmidt
*''[[Ribes californicum]]'' Hook. & Arn.
*''[[Ribes cereum]]'' Douglas - Squaw Currant or Wax Currant
*''[[Ribes ciliatum]]'' Humb. & Bonpl.
*''[[Ribes coloradense]]'' Cov.
*''[[Ribes curvatum]]'' Small
*''[[Ribes cynosbati]]'' L. - Prickly Gooseberry
*''[[Ribes diacanthum]]'' Pall.
*''[[Ribes distans]]'' Jancz.
*''[[Ribes divaricatum]]'' Douglas
*''[[Ribes echinellum]]'' (Cov.) Rehder - Miccosukee Gooseberry
*''[[Ribes emodense]]'' Rehder
*''[[Ribes fasciculatum]]'' Siebold & Zucc.
*''[[Ribes fragrans]]'' Pall.
*''[[Ribes gayanum]]'' (Spach) Steud.
*''[[Ribes giraldii]]'' Jancz.
*''[[Ribes glaciale]]'' Wallich
*''[[Ribes glandulosum]]'' Grauer ex Weber - White currant
*''[[Ribes glutinosum]]'' Benth.
*''[[Ribes grossularioides]]'' Maxim. - Japanese Gooseberry
*''[[Ribes henryi]]'' Franch.
*''[[Ribes hirtellum]]'' Michx. - North American Gooseberry
*''[[Ribes hudsonianum]]'' Richards - Northern Blackcurrant
*''[[Ribes indecorum]]'' Eastw. - White-flowered Currant
*''[[Ribes inebrians]]'' Lindl.
*''[[Ribes inerme]]'' Rydb.
*''[[Ribes irriguum]]'' Douglas
*''[[Ribes japonicum]]'' Maxim.
*''[[Ribes lacustre]]'' (Pers.) Poir.
*''[[Ribes lasianthum]]'' Greene
*''[[Ribes laurifolium]]'' Jancz.
*''[[Ribes laxiflorum]]'' Pursh
*''[[Ribes leptanthum]]'' A.Gray
*''[[Ribes lobbii]]'' A.Gray - Gummy Gooseberry
*''[[Ribes longeracemosum]]'' Franch.
*''[[Ribes luridum]]'' Hook. & Thoms.
*''[[Ribes malvaceum]]'' Sm.
*''[[Ribes mandschuricum]]'' (Maxim.) Komarov
*''[[Ribes maximowiczii]]'' Batal.
*''[[Ribes menziesii]]'' Pursh - Canyon Gooseberry
*''[[Ribes meyeri]]'' Maxim.
*''[[Ribes missouriense]]'' Nutt. - Missouri Gooseberry
*''[[Ribes montigenum]]'' McClat.
*''[[Ribes moupinense]]'' Franch.
*''[[Ribes multiflorum]]'' Kit.
*''[[Ribes nevadense]]'' Kellogg - Sierra Currant
*''[[Ribes nigrum]]'' L. - [[Blackcurrant]]
*''[[Ribes niveum]]'' Lindl.
*''[[Ribes odoratum]]'' H.L.Wendl. - Buffalo Currant
*''[[Ribes orientale]]'' Desf.
*''[[Ribes oxyacanthoides]]'' L. - American Mountain Gooseberry
*''[[Ribes petiolare]]'' Fisch.
*''[[Ribes petraeum]]'' Wulf.
*''[[Ribes pinetorum]]'' Greene
*''[[Ribes procumbens]]'' Pall.
*''[[Ribes pulchellum]]'' Turcz.
*''[[Ribes quercetorum]]'' Greene
*''[[Ribes roezlii]]'' Reg. - Sierra Gooseberry
*''[[Ribes rotundifolium]]'' Michx.
*''[[Ribes rubrum]]'' L. - [[Redcurrant]]
*''[[Ribes sanguineum]]'' Pursh - Flowering Currant
*''[[Ribes setosum]]'' Lindl.
*''[[Ribes silvestre]]'' (Lam.) Mert. & Koch (syn. ''R. sativum'')
*''[[Ribes speciosum]]'' Pursh - Fuchsia-flowered Gooseberry
*''[[Ribes spicatum]]'' Robson - Nordic Redcurrant
*''[[Ribes stenocarpum]]'' Maxim.
*''[[Ribes tenue]]'' Jancz.
*''[[Ribes triste]]'' Pall. - [[Northern Redcurrant]] or Swamp Redcurrant
*''[[Ribes ussuriense]]'' Jancz.
*''[[Ribes uva-crispa]]'' L. (syn. ''R. grossularia'') - [[Gooseberry]]
*''[[Ribes viburnifolium]]'' A.Gray
*''[[Ribes vilmorinii]]'' Jancz.
*''[[Ribes viscosissimum]]'' Pursh
*''[[Ribes warszewiczii]]'' Jancz.
*''[[Ribes wolfii]]'' Rothr.

==External link==
{{commons|Ribes}}
*[http://www.uga.edu/fruit/ribes.htm Entry on ''Ribes'' at Mark Rieger's UGa fruit crops site]

[[Category:Saxifragales]]

Grossulariaceae - Revision history

Envoy at 15:10, 11 October 2007