Plants 1-2 m. Stems erect to spreading, soft-pubescent, ± thickly stipitate-glandular, becoming glabrate; spines at nodes absent; prickles on internodes absent. Leaves: petiole (0.8-)1-5(-10) cm, pubescent, sparsely to densely stipitate-glandular; blade suborbiculate to reniform, 3-or 5-lobed, cleft 1/4-1/3 to midrib, (1-)2.6-6.5(-8.5) cm, base deeply cordate, surfaces sparsely stipitate-glandular (otherwise nearly glabrous) to downy along veins, copiously soft-pubescent and glandular, lobes rounded, margins irregularly 1 or 2 times coarsely crenate-dentate, apex rounded to broadly acute. Inflorescences erect to somewhat pendent, (3-)6-17-flowered racemes, 3-10 cm (shorter than leaves), axis copiously pubescent and stipitate-glandular, flowers clustered at end of peduncle. Pedicels jointed, (2.7-)3.5-10(-12) mm, pubescent, stipitate-glandular; bracts lanceolate to oblanceolate, (5-)6-8.5(-12) mm, stipitate-glandular. Flowers: hypanthium greenish, greenish yellow, or yellowish white, sometimes strongly pinkish or purplish tinged, campanulate to tubular-campanulate, (4.5-)7-8 mm, sparsely to densely hairy and stipitate-glandular abaxially, glabrous adaxially; sepals not overlapping, spreading at anthesis, becoming erect, whitish green, sometimes tinged with pink or purple, lanceolate-elliptic, (3.5-)4-7 mm; petals connivent, erect, white or cream, obovate-spatulate, not conspicuously revolute or inrolled, 2.5-4 mm; nectary disc not prominent; stamens nearly as long as petals; filaments broadened at base, 1.2-3 mm, glabrous; anthers cream, oblong-oval, 1-1.8 mm, apex with cup-shaped gland; ovary glabrous or minutely hairy and strongly stipitate-glandular; styles connate nearly to stigmas, 6-9.5 mm, glabrous. Berries palatable, dark bluish black, ovoid, (8-)10-15 mm, glabrous or ± hairy and stipitate-glandular.
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A loosely branched shrub. It grows 2 m tall. The stems can be erect or spreading. The leaves have 3-5 lobes. These are heart shaped at the base. They are 2-10 cm wide and have sticky glands. The flowers are white or cream and in clusters of up to 16. The fruit are bluish-black. They are hairy.
Along creeks, open to heavily timbered slopes, sagebrush; at elevations from 900-3,100 metres. Shaded woods and rocky places in coastal mountains; at elevations from 1,500-3,000 metres.
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It is a temperate plant. It grows in moist or dry woodlands in mountain locations in Canada.
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