Ribes bracteosum (known by the common names stink currant and fragrant currant), is a species of currant native to western coastal North America.
R. bracteosum is a deciduous shrub, without thorns, growing to tall. The leaves are across, palmately lobed with 5 or 7 lobes. The flowers are produced in spring after the leaves emerge, on racemes long containing 20âÂÂ40 flowers; each flower is in diameter, with five white or greenish-tinged petals. The fruit, born in clusters, is dark blue with a whitish bloom.
It is native to western coastal North America from southeastern Alaska to Mendocino County in California. Its habitats include stream banks, moist woods, shorelines and thickets.
The fruit is edible but sometimes unpleasant.