"In late March the wild currant bursts into bloom, covering every bush with crimson panicles, and with it comes a host of rufous hummingbirds, brilliant in glittering coppery mail… These…together make one of our most colorful and animated pictures. A full-blooming shrub of this species shimmering in the sunlight through the dim, dark arches of a fir forest, has a glowing, ethereal quality… "
—Leslie Haskins,
Wildflowers of the Pacific Coast, 1934