What have the Scots ever done for us?

Well for one thing they have given you the flowering currant Ribes sanguineum whose scientific name translates as the blood-stained Currant bush.
The species is native to North America and was brought to the attention of Europeans in 1825 by by the Scottish explorer and plant collector David Douglas who had been sent to North America by the Royal Horticultural Society to collect plants for their new botanic garden in Chiswick. 
Douglas crossed snowy mountains, rivers and heat-baked prairies and  in the process discovered over new 200 species, including the flowering currant which he found in what is now  the US state of Oregon.
After a number of trips, each involving unfortunate clashes with native Americans, Douglas came to a quite ghastly end; he fell into a pit set to trap wild cattle and was gored to death by a bull that had fallen in earlier.