Sticky Currant

''Ribes viscosissimum'' is a species of currant known by the common name sticky currant. It is native to western North America from British Columbia and Alberta to California to Colorado, where it grows in mountain forests, streambanks, and plateau sagebrush. It is a spreading to erect shrub growing one to two meters in maximum height, its stem coated in sticky glandular hairs and lacking spines and bristles. It is resinous and fragrant. The highly glandular leaves have thick, rough blades divided.. more