Ribes sanguineum
English: Flowering currant; Redflower currant; Red-flowering currant.
Synonyms: Calobotrya sanguinea; Coreosma sanguinea.
Name: sanguineum in Latin means blood-red.
Region: North American, western United States, Canada; widely cultivated and naturalized throughout temperate Europe and Australasia.
Botany
Deciduous shrub; 2 m tall and broad.
Stem: bark is dark, brownish-grey; prominent paler brown lenticels.
Leaves: palmately lobed, five lobes; 2 to 7 cm long and broad; with strong resinous scent when young.
Inflorescence: dangling racemes; 3 to 7 cm long; 5 to 30 flowers.
Flowers: red or pink; 5 to 10 mm in diameter; 5 petals; blooming in early spring.
Fruit: dark purple oval berry; about 1 cm long; edible but with an insipid taste.