the most surprising thing about wild american black currants, Ribes americanum, is how good they taste. If you've tried Crandall currant, a selection of another species it has a similar flavour with no astringency, they're very tasty. and they're native, grown from seed, I was lucky enough to find a local patch of them, you can help ID the plant by the small yellow glands under the leaves. I want to plant them all over our property. Here i'm making plugs with small clusters, excited to get these growing. #nativeplants

Ribes americanum, the wild american black currant. near the end of the season, but found enough fruit for seed to grow next year. they grow prolifically in this wet marshy area, and I found one patch that was doing great in full shade. you can see in the last photo that all three stages of ripeness green to red and fully ripe black can be on one raceme. I suspect the wildlife has been eating them as the ripen. #nativeplants

wild american black currant, super tasty native currant. I collect the seeds every year from one local population I've found with good tasting fruit, similar to crandall just smaller and they ripen unevenly which looks good, you get black red yellow and green fruit all at once

wild black currant, american black currant id from minnesota wildflowers..at first I couldn’t see the little leaf glands that are part of the identification, but they show up with a macro photo. #ribesamericanum