Ribes hudsonianum Ribes hudsonianum Ribes hudsonianum is a North American species of currant, known by the common name northern black currant. "Ribes hudsonianum" grows in moist wooded areas, such as mountain streambanks and in swamp thickets. They are upright to erect shrubs growing one half to 2 meters (20-80 inches) tall. They are aromatic, with a strong scent generally considered unpleasant. Stems are covered in shiny, yellow resin glands that lack spines or prickles. Leaves are up to 10 centimeters long, divided into three, or rarely five, sharp-toothed lobes, having long hairs on the undersides, studded with yellow glands. Inflorescences are erect,
Ribes nevadense dully toothed lobes. The inflorescence is a dense raceme of up to 20 flowers hanging pendent or held erect on the branches. Each flower has opens into a corolla-like array of five pinkish red sepals with five smaller white petals in a tube at the center. The fruit is an edible blue-black berry under a centimeter wide. It is somewhat waxy in texture and studded with glandular hairs. Ribes nevadense Ribes nevadense (sometimes spelled "R. nevadaense") is a species of currant known by the common names Sierra currant and mountain pink currant. "Ribes nevadense" is native to several of the