Ribes viscosissimum

Sticky currant

Family: Grossulariaceae · Type: shrub · Native

Sticky currant is a California native shrub found in the Klamath Ranges, northern California Coast Ranges, California Range Highlands, Sierra Nevada Mountains, and Modoc Plateau in sagebrush scrub and forest habitats at elevations of 960 to 3,030 meters. Flowering from May to July, this plant produces white-green to pink flowers in clusters of 4 to 15 blooms, with delicate petals 3 millimeters long. Growing to less than 1.5 meters tall with smooth stems and no nodal spines, it forms a compact shrubby structure. Its leaves are notably fragrant, with thick gray-green blades 3 to 8 centimeters long, featuring distinctive crenate edges and glandular surfaces. The fruit develops as a black to glaucous berry approximately 10 to 12 millimeters in diameter.

Habitat: Sagebrush scrub, forest

Bloom period: May-Jul

Elevation: 960-3030 m

Bioregions: KR, NCoRH, CaRH, SNH, MP

California counties: El Dorado, Butte, Humboldt, Siskiyou, Shasta, Trinity, Nevada, Lassen, Placer, Sierra, Tulare, Modoc, Inyo, Tuolumne, Kern, Fresno, Amador, Alpine, Colusa, Del Norte, Glenn, Mariposa, Mendocino, Plumas, Tehama, Los Angeles, Madera, Calaveras, Mono

Data from The California Species Project — 14,000+ California species with verified data from CNPS, CDFW, USFWS, Jepson eFlora, Cal-IPC, and more.