Swamp current aka, skunk current; a widespread wild current with landscape-values

Swamp current climbing Bigleaf Maple

Swamp current climbing Bigleaf Maple

Swamp current is the prefered popular name on the Olympic Peninsula of maritime west-coast North America.  More-widely, it is typically called skunk current.  Ribes glandulosum.  But it grows especially well on slurpy-wet ground; usually on slopes, and maybe not ‘in’ swampiness, but conspicuously on elevated stumps & hummocks, in swamp-habitat. … cont’d >