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Ribes hudsonianum
Also called Western Black Currant, Hudson Bay Currant, Stinking Currant, Wild Black Currant
Northern black currant is a North American shrub of cool, moist woods and streambanks, growing 0.5 to 2 metres tall with aromatic foliage and bitter black berries. It does best in cool, moist conditions and is rarely grown in gardens.
Ribes hudsonianum is a North American species of currant, known by the common name northern black currant.
The species can be found in rocky areas and in humid forests, from montane to subalpine areas. Both varieties are present only in British Columbia, Idaho and Washington.
The berries are bitter but edible. The Nlaka'pamux use the presence of black currants around a lake as evidence that there will likely be fish in the lake.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Ribes hudsonianum 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.
