Ribes bracteosum

Ribes bracteosum, the stink currant, is a species of currant native to western coastal North America from southeastern Alaska to Mendocino County in California.

R. bracteosum is a deciduous shrub, without thorns, growing to 3 m tall. The leaves are 5-20 cm across, palmately lobed with 5 or 7 lobes. The flowers are produced in spring after the leaves emerge, on racemes 15-30 cm long containing 20–40 flowers; each flower is 5-10 mm in diameter, with five white or greenish-tinged petals. The fruit, born in clusters, is dark blue with a whitish bloom, edible but sometimes unpleasant. Its habitats include stream banks, moist woods, shorelines and thickets.