Ribes bracteosum Douglas

Plants 1-4 m. Stems erect, with dense, yellowish, shiny, sessile, crystalline, round glands, sparsely pubescent throughout; spines at nodes absent; prickles on internodes absent. Leaves: petiole 2-10 cm, sparsely pubescent; blade ovate, deeply 5-7-lobed, cleft 1/2+ to midrib, (1.5-)2-10(-22) cm, base cordate, surfaces with yellow, dull, sessile glands and sparse hairs abaxially, with yellow, shiny, sessile glands and glabrous adaxially, lobes with main segments ovate-lanceolate, margins 1-2 times sharply serrate, apex acute, shallowly lobed. Inflorescences ascending to erect, 20-50-flowered racemes, (10-)15-30 cm, axis sparsely pubescent, flowers evenly spaced. Pedicels jointed, 5-12 mm, pubescent and glandular; bracts conspicuous, proximal ones ovate, lobed, distal ones narrowly oblong, unlobed, (3-)4-5 mm, sparsely glandular and pubescent. Flowers: hypanthium green, saucer-shaped, widely flared, 0.5-1.5 mm, ± pubescent and sparsely glandular abaxially, glabrous adaxially; sepals nearly to somewhat overlapping, spreading, brownish purple to greenish or sometimes nearly white, ovate-lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, 3-5 mm; petals widely separated, erect, white, cuneate-flabelliform, not conspicuously revolute or inrolled, 1 mm; nectary disc wine red, thick, lobed, covering and submerging ovary; stamens slightly longer than petals; filaments linear to slightly broader at base, 1 mm, glabrous; anthers white, transversely oblong-cordate, 0.5 mm, broader than long, apex shallowly notched; ovary somewhat hairy and densely sessile-glandular; styles connate 1/4-1/2 their lengths, 1 mm, glabrous or hairy. Berries bland, black, subglobose, 8-10 mm, glandular. 2n = 16.

Stream banks, moist woods, floodplains, shorelines, thickets, avalanche tracks; at elevations up to 1,700 metres.

The fruit are eaten raw. They are also boiled with salmon roe, dried and stored for later use. The fruit can be eaten with milk and sugar or made into jams.

Can be grown by cuttings or seedlings.