Golden Currant vs Black Hawthorn - TreeTime.ca

Golden Currant vs Black Hawthorn

Ribes aureum

Crataegus douglasii

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Golden Currant
Black Hawthorn

Golden Currant produces berries for jams, jellies, sauces and even pemmican. This currant bush is very dense, allowing for use as a hedge, windbreak, or wildlife habitat.

This plant is also a very popular rootstock to graft popular red and white currant varieties to. The resulting plants are taller, more productive, and easier to harvest.

Black Hawthorn is a versatile plant that is native to wetlands and other areas with moist soils, but can also tolerate dry soils. This plant can be grown as a short shrub, or a tree reaching 30 feet tall.

Black Hawthorn is valued for erosion control and attracting pollinators. It also makes an attractive flowering ornamental that can be planted as a specimen or pruned as a hedge. It is commonly used in shelterbelts.

Golden Currant Quick Facts

Black Hawthorn Quick Facts

Zone: 4a
Zone: 3a
Height: 1.5 m (5 ft)
Height: 8 m (25 ft)
Spread: 1.2 m (4 ft)
Spread: 5 m (15 ft)
Moisture: normal
Moisture: any
Light: partial shade, full sun
Light: partial shade, full sun
Hybrid: no
Hybrid: no
Catkins: no
Catkins: no
Fall colour: reddish purple
Fall colour: yellow to red
Berries: glossy black berries
Berries: purplish-black pomes
Flowers: yellow
Flowers: white
Bark: brown to gray
Growth rate: medium
Growth rate: medium
Life span: short
Life span: medium
Suckering: medium
Suckering: medium




Other Names: buffalo currant, clove currant, fragrant golden currant, golden flowering currant, spicebush
Other Names: crataegus columbiana, douglas hawthorn, douglas' thornapple