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Ribes glandulosum
Also called Wild Currant, Fetid Currant
Ribes glandulosum, the skunk currant, is a small deciduous shrub of the currant family native to northern North America. Give it cool, moist conditions with partial shade, and it is hardy and easy to grow.
Ribes glandulosum, or the skunk currant, is a North American species of flowering plant in the currant family.
It is widespread in Canada (all 10 provinces and all 3 territories) and is also found in parts of the United States (Alaska, the Great Lakes region, the Appalachian Mountains, and the Northeast). It can be found in humid forests, shrub thickets, clearings, and on rocky slopes.
The Ojibwe people take a compound decoction of the root for back pain and for "female weakness". The Woods Cree use a decoction of the stem, either by itself or mixed with wild red raspberry, to prevent clotting after birth, eat the berries as food, and use the stem to make a bitter tea. The Algonquin people use the berries as food.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Ribes glandulosum by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
