Shrubs or trees, ?multi-stemmed?, 30–70 dm. Stems: twigs: new growth golden green to strongly reddish tinged, glabrous, 1-year old usually shiny, dark brown, older gray; thorns on twigs 1-year old shiny, deep brown to blackish, often black-tipped, stout to slender, 2.5–6 cm. Leaves: petiole length 30–60% blade, sparsely to densely glandular; blade ovate, 3–6(–9) cm, ?70–100% mature size at anthesis?, base subcordate, truncate, or rounded to cuneate, lobes 3–6 per side, sinuses moderately deep, lobe apex acute to acuminate, margins serrate, ?teeth numerous, small, larger ones conspicuously glandular, particularly at base, smaller ones inconspicuously gland-tipped?, veins 4–7 per side, apex acute, adaxial surface densely appressed-scabrous-pubescent young, glabrescent, rarely glabrate. Inflorescences 5–12-flowered; branches glabrous; bracteoles usually absent (even young), sometimes few to several, ?often red-tinged?, ± linear. Flowers 13–17(–22) mm diam.; hypanthium glabrous; sepals 4–5 mm, margins subentire, abaxially glabrous; stamens 5–10, anthers pink to reddish purple; styles 3–5. Pomes bright to deep red, suborbicular to ellipsoid, 8–15 mm diam.; sepals erect-patent or erose; pyrenes 3–5, dorsally shallowly grooved. 2n = 68.
Found in a variety of habitats, including thickets and open woods, woods and river banks in dry clay soils and rich moist soils along the margins of oak woodlands.
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