General:
Deciduous shrub, loosely branched, 0.5-1.5 m tall; stems ascending to decumbent, crisp-hairy and glandular-hairy on young growth, unarmed; bark dark reddish-brown.

Leaves:
Leaves alternate, broadly kidney-shaped or rounded, shallowly heart-shaped at the base, 4-8 cm wide, equally to irregularly 5-lobed nearly half their length, the lobes rounded, shallowly 1-2 toothed, sparsely hairy, at least along the veins of the undersurface; stalks equal to or slightly longer than the blades, glabrous.

Flowers:
Inflorescence of 8-20 flowers in a drooping raceme shorter than the leaves; flower stalks 4-6 mm long, jointed below the flowers, glabrous or nearly so; petals creamy to pinkish or yellowish-red, wedge- to fan-shaped, 0.8-1 mm long; hypanthium saucer-shaped, 0.8-1 mm long; calyces greenish or greenish-yellow, glabrous; styles glabrous, about equalling the stamens.

Fruits:
Berries, round, red, 0.6-1 cm long, glabrous.

Source:  The Illustrated Flora of British Columbia

If more than one illustration is available for a species (e.g., separate illustrations were provided for two subspecies) then links to the separate images will be provided below. Note that individual subspecies or varietal illustrations are not always available.

Illustration Source:  The Illustrated Flora of British Columbia

Synonyms and Alternate Names:
Ribes sativum Syme
Ribes sylvestre (Lam.) Mert. & W.D.J. Koch
Ribes vulgare Lam.