Shrubs 1-1.5(-2) m tall. Branchlets pubescent when young, becoming glossy; nodal spines 3-7, stout, to 1 cm; internodes with dense, needlelike spines. Buds oblong, apex acute; scales scarious. Petiole 1.5-3 cm, pubescent and sparsely glandular hairy; leaf blade broadly ovate, 1.5-4 × 1.5-5 cm, pubescent when young, gradually glabrescent, abaxial veins sparsely glandular hairy, base truncate to cordate; lobes 3-5, margin coarsely obtusely dentate, apex obtuse to acute. Flowers axillary, solitary or 2 or 3 in short racemes, bisexual; bracts broadly ovate, 3-4 mm, pubescent, 3-veined; pedicel 5-10 mm, subglabrous, sometimes glandular hairy. Calyx brown to reddish brown, subglabrous; tube broadly campanulate, 3-4 mm; lobes spreading or reflexed, erect in fruit, oblong to spatulate, 6-7 mm. Petals white to pinkish, oblong to spatulate, 4-5 mm. Stamens subequaling petals; anthers ovoid-ellipsoid, without nectary at apex. Ovary glabrous, but with minute, yellowish brown spines. Style subequaling stamens, apex 2-lobed. Fruit reddish black when mature, globose, ca. 1 cm, glabrous, rarely villous, with numerous minute, yellowish brown spines. Fl. May-Jun, fr. Jul-Aug.
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A spiny shrub. It grow 1 m tall. The young branches are yellow. They are covered with bristles and have prickles at the nodes. The prickles are u to 1 cm long. The leaves are heart shaped. They are 2-4 cm long by 1-5 cm wide. They have 3-5 deep lobes. There are teeth along the edge. The leaves have soft hairs and glands. The flowers are pale reddish-brown. There are 1 or 2 flowers in the axils of leaves. The fruit are prickly, green and juicy. They are 1 cm across.
Coniferous, broad-leaved, and mixed forests, open woods, forest margins, thickets and stream banks in mountain regions; at elevations from 900-2,300 metres. Mountain coniferous forests, slopes and stream banks.
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It is a temperate plant. In northern China it grows between 900-2,300 m above sea level.
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