Currants are loosely branched shrubs up to 10 feet tall with palmate leaves and berries that range from blue to red-orange. They grow in dry slopes, open areas and forests, and their berries are edible and eaten by many birds.

1. Currants
Ribes cereum and Ribes lacustre

2. Characteristics
• Loosely branched shrubs up to 10 ft
• Unarmed
• Berries blue to red-orange
• Flowers red, white,pinkish
• Palmate leaves

3. Ecology
• Dry slopes, open areas, forests
• Many subspecies and lots of variation
• Berries edible, used by a variety of birds