Plant: shrub; (0.1-)1-2(-3) m tall; stems not strongly differentiated into primocanes and floricanes; bark shredding; plants usually puberulent and stipitate-glandular; prickles absent Leaves: deciduous, slightly larger on first-year's growth, simple, palmately lobed, irregularly serrate to dentate, broadly ovate-cordate, pubescent above, subglabrous and often glandular below, 4-15(-25) cm long, 5-30 cm wide; lobes (3-)5(-7), the lobes acute to acuminate INFLORESCENCE: simple bracteate cymes terminating floricane branches or in leaf axils with 1-9 flowers Flowers: sepals spreading to ascending, caudate, 8-19 mm long, glandular-pubescent, the basal portion ovate to lanceolate; petals white, (8-)11-28 mm long; ovaries capped with a hard pubescent cushion; styles glabrous Fruit: coherent, thimble-shaped, separating from the torus, merely palatable; drupelets red, pubescent, thinly-fleshy Misc: Shady mesic forest areas; 2150-3250 m (7000-10800 ft); Jun-Sep REFERENCES: Brasher, Jeffrey W. 2001. Rosaceae. J. Ariz. – Nev. Acad. Sci. Volume 33(1).