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Ribes glandulosum Weber

Skunk currant; Wild currant; Fetid currant

Grossulariaceae · Alaska, Nunavut +30

Cited as Kew's World Checklist cites it, Ribes glandulosum Weber: GBIF's backbone key for this page carries the name with another author, Grauer.

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Habitat figures
Cold floor (1 night in 100)
-29.2°C
Record low -38.5 °C in 44 years, at a typical spot in the range NASA POWER
Warmest month, mean daily high
23°C
Jul at the habitat CHELSA
Rain a year (median across the range)
1,084mm
12 months of 25 mm or more in the median year CHELSA
Open-sky light
7–38DLI
Lowest to highest month (DLI) CHELSA
The year in your months, northern hemisphere
  1. Jan
  2. Feb
  3. Mar
  4. Apr
  5. May
  6. Jun
  7. Jul
  8. Aug
  9. Sep
  10. Oct
  11. Nov
  12. Dec
Rain spread: 70% of the median year's rain takes 8 months, so no short rainy season. rain rule, CHELSA
Northern hemisphere unless you set your site. The chart is in the habitat's months.

Summary

Ribes glandulosum, or the skunk currant, is a North American species of flowering plant in the currant family.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Ribes glandulosum", CC BY-SA 4.0.

About the genus · Ribes

Ribes is a genus of approximately 200 known species of flowering plants, predominantly native to the temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere. Ribes is the sole genus in the plant family Grossulariaceae. The genus includes species commonly referred to as redcurrants, blackcurrants, whitecurrants, and gooseberries. More on Wikipedia ›

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Ribes", CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Seasons

The rain rule reads no short rainy season: 70% of the median year's rain (783 mm of 1,064 mm) takes 8 months, May to December. Mean temperature moves 28.7 °C between the warmest and coldest month. Months are the habitat's, northern hemisphere; shifted six months for a southern-hemisphere collection: November to June.

Rain

1,064 mm in the median year at the habitat, 783 mm of it May to December. Wettest month September at 106 mm, driest month February at 65 mm. Across the grid cells of the range the year's total runs 622 mm to 1,567 mm, the 10th to 90th percentile of each cell's own year. The median of the cells' own yearly totals, 1,084 mm, is the year's rain at the top of the page; the 1,064 mm here is the median year's, the twelve monthly medians added, which the rain rule reads. Habitat calendar, northern hemisphere; median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA.

Light

Open sky over the habitat: 7 to 38 mol/m²/day across the year (daily light integral, median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA; the lowest 10th-percentile month across the cells is 5, the highest 90th-percentile month 41).

Warmth and air
Temperature

Coldest: the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at a typical spot in the range is -29.2 °C, the absolute minimum -38.5 °C, 7,820 frost nights in 44 years, 177.7 a year (NASA POWER daily minima). Warmest: the 99th-percentile day is 27.7 °C. Monthly means: the coldest month's mean nightly low -14.6 °C in January (across the grid cells of the range -20.2 °C to -8.9 °C), the warmest month's mean daily high 22.8 °C in July (median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA). Cold floor: -29.2 °C, which is the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at a typical spot in the range (NASA POWER).

Humidity

Relative humidity at the habitat: 57 to 65% across the year (monthly means, median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA). A figure about the air, saying nothing about how the plant takes water.

How this section is made

Each card states this species' habitat figures with their sources, and what two fixed rules read from them; nothing here says what the plant does, wants or tolerates. The rules · the terms.

Seasons. Read from the median year of CHELSA monthly rainfall and mean temperature across the grid cells of the range: the rain rule takes the smallest set of months carrying 70% of the rain and calls it winter when its mean is more than half a degree below the year's, summer when more than that above, and neither in between; the temperature rule, used only under 120 mm, names the cooler six months when they are at least a degree cooler than the other six. Months are shifted for the other hemisphere only where the temperature curve moves 4 °C or more and the habitat lies 10° or more from the equator. A reading of the curves, not an observation of the plant.

Rain. CHELSA monthly precipitation, median year across the grid cells of the range. The rain that falls where the species is recorded; nothing about how the plant takes water.

Light. CHELSA shortwave radiation at each envelope cell, a daily-mean flux taken to a daily total and converted at 2.07 mol of PAR per MJ. The sky over the habitat, measured; what reaches a plant under a rock, a shrub or a shade cloth is not.

Temperature. NASA POWER daily minima and maxima over 44 years at a typical spot in the range, lapse-corrected -13 m to its elevation; CHELSA monthly means, median year across the grid cells of the range. The cold floor is the 1st-percentile night named in its sentence. Not a measured survival limit for any plant in a pot.

Humidity. CHELSA relative humidity, median year across the grid cells of the range.

Climate across the habitat

Habitat months, northern hemisphere

Habitat climate of Ribes glandulosum through the yearWarmest month July, mean daily high 23 °C; coldest month January, mean nightly low -14.6 °C; 1,064 mm of rain in the median year (the twelve monthly medians added). Medians across the range, from CHELSA; the extremes at the edge from NASA POWER. Habitat months, northern hemisphere.-40°-20°0°20°40°frost27.7° 99th-percentile day, NASA POWER-38.5° lowest night in 44 years, NASA POWER°C · day and nightcold quarter0255075100125150mm rainDLI 7–38RH 57–65%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
day night rain medians and 10th–90th percentile across 918 habitat cells, CHELSA cold quarter: the three months around the coldest month's mean nightly low extremes over 44 years at a typical spot in the range, from NASA POWER, marked at the edge, in no month DLI, mol/m²/dayRH %each on its own scale
Figures by month
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Day °C-6 / -12–-1-4 / -10–11 / -3–58 / 3–1215 / 9–1820 / 15–2323 / 18–2622 / 18–2518 / 14–2011 / 6–134 / -2–7-3 / -9–2
Night °C-15 / -20–-9-13 / -18–-8-8 / -12–-4-1 / -4–25 / 2–811 / 8–1415 / 11–1715 / 11–1711 / 6–134 / 0–8-2 / -8–2-10 / -16–-5
Rain mm73 / 24–12165 / 19–11067 / 27–12276 / 32–12290 / 53–128104 / 77–138103 / 82–14497 / 75–135106 / 73–139102 / 53–14894 / 36–15087 / 27–144
DLI10 / 6–1217 / 13–1825 / 22–2631 / 29–3436 / 34–3938 / 36–4137 / 34–4032 / 28–3424 / 19–2615 / 12–189 / 7–127 / 5–10
RH %65 / 60–7063 / 59–6660 / 57–6357 / 54–6257 / 55–6159 / 56–6360 / 58–6461 / 59–6461 / 59–6461 / 59–6462 / 60–6665 / 60–70
How this section is made
Each figure is the median across the 918 grid cells on land that hold in-range records (1061 records in those cells; 8 more cells hold records but no land by the elevation layer, so those records sit at sea and the cells are left out), with the 10th–90th percentile span across those cells after the slash where it differs. A dash is a month one or more of those cells has no figure for in the grid (a variable CHELSA does not carry there), so no median is taken rather than one over fewer cells. Extremes and elevation were read at a typical spot in the range, cell 871:1928 (46.425, -83.575). Over 44 years there: absolute minimum -38.5 °C, 1st-percentile night -29.2 °C, 99th-percentile day 27.7 °C. Normals: CHELSA V2.1 1981–2010 climatology, 0.05° cells (each the mean of ~36 1 km pixels). Across the range: median and 10th–90th percentile of each month across the 918 distinct grid cells holding 1061 of the 1072 in-range records (8 further cells with records at sea, by the elevation layer, left out); extremes and elevation at the typical cell 871:1928 (its coldest month's mean nightly low nearest the median across cells); its position is the cell centre. Extremes: NASA POWER (MERRA-2) daily 1981–2024, cell 46.50_-83.750, lapse-corrected -13 m at 6.5 °C/km. Elevation: ETOPO 2022, 296 m (cell mean).

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing: the climate was read across the cells of the in-range records placed well enough to read one, not at the marker.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeAlaska, Nunavut, Northwest Territories, Yukon, Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Labrador, New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward I., Québec, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Vermont, West Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Map marker44.253, -71.599 · in the densest population, 720 records (39% of those in range)
Kew's description“shrub” · “temperate” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 1839 georeferenced records inside the native range; the climate across the range on the 1061 of them in the land cells it reads, of 1072 placed to within 10 km; the map shows only the 974 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 125 km away. 31 records outside the WCVP native range not used. 767 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stay on the map but off the climate.
Other GBIF keysRecords also from GBIF's key 10979288 (Ribes glandulosum Weber): Kew's file holds it as Ribes glandulosum Weber (accepted); 56 records, from GBIF's search API on the day of the build.
How this section is made
The map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population inside the densest 4° block of the 1839 in-range records; it decides nothing. Records outside the native range, living specimens and records marked introduced are not used; which records count.

Photographs

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Photographs: (c) S Boisvert, some rights reserved (CC BY) (2); (c) Christian Back, some rights reserved (CC BY) (2); author not stated, no rights reserved · CC0; (c) Patrice Dupont, some rights reserved (CC BY).

Similar habitat climate The 6 nearest by mean daily high, mean nightly low and rain, month by month. How.

Cornus canadensis Cornus canadensis Creeping dogwood Photo: CC BY, Arthur WhitingKalmia polifolia Kalmia polifolia Bog-laurel Photo: CC0, vandenbrinkGaultheria hispidula Gaultheria hispidula Creeping snowberry Photo: CC BY, alicia penneyBetula cordifolia Betula cordifolia Mountain paper birch Photo: CC BY, Tyler EkholmMaianthemum trifolium Maianthemum trifolium Threeleaf false lily of the valley Photo: CC BY, Alex BaxterVaccinium myrtilloides Vaccinium myrtilloides Sourtop blueberry Photo: CC BY, Nick Kleinschmidt

Other Ribes 77 in the reference

Ribes aciculare Ribes aciculare Grossulariaceae Photo: CC BY, K.P.Ribes alpestre Ribes alpestre Grossulariaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Christian Hummert (Ixitixel)Ribes alpinum Ribes alpinum Mountain currant Photo: CC0, author not statedRibes amarum Ribes amarum Grossulariaceae Photo: CC BY, George WilliamsRibes americanum Ribes americanum Wild black currant Photo: CC BY, Sam TurnerRibes aureum Ribes aureum Golden currant Photo: CC0, author not statedRibes biebersteinii Ribes biebersteinii Grossulariaceae Photo: CC BY, Екатерина КравцоваRibes bracteosum Ribes bracteosum Stink currant Photo: CC BY, Moe MeikleRibes burejense Ribes burejense Stinky black currant Photo: CC BY, Jane CharlenRibes californicum Ribes californicum Hillside gooseberry Photo: CC BY, jayjtRibes cereum Ribes cereum Wax currant Photo: CC0, author not statedRibes ciliatum Ribes ciliatum Grossulariaceae Photo: CC BY, nebrooks all 78 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Coreosma prostrata; Ribes prostratum; Ribes prostratum var. wisconsinum; Ribes resinosum; Ribes viscosum. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Grossulariaceae
Described by
Weber
Native to
Alaska, Nunavut, Northwest Territories +29
Wild records
1839 in range · 974 open

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-22GBIF's key 2986208 is Ribes glandulosum Grauer; the page links Kew's Ribes glandulosum Weber, and the name is cited as Kew cites it
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-22names fetched 2026-10-22
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredasked 2026-10-22GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21; 56 records of GBIF's key 10979288, Ribes glandulosum Weber (Kew's file holds it as Ribes glandulosum Weber (accepted)): GBIF occurrence search API; 16 records within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (11 at a botanic garden or arboretum, 1 at a herbarium, 4 at a zoo; Wikidata's list)
Habitat climate climate answeredasked 2026-10-22
Daily extremes (NASA POWER) climate.extremes answeredasked 2026-10-22NASA POWER (MERRA-2) daily 1981–2024, cell 46.50_-83.750, lapse-corrected -13 m at 6.5 °C/km
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild answeredasked 2026-10-22from iNaturalist's open data of 2026-09-27: research-grade observations with an open-licence photograph, the 24 whose photographs iNaturalist received last (the open data holds no votes); filled 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media answeredasked 2026-10-22read from the page's key and its other keys: 6 from GBIF's key 10979288
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 77 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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