Stems procumbent or climbing, 10+ dm, ?rooting at nodes?; bark of canes green or brown; prickles infrastipular and/or internodal, single or paired, curved or declined, ± stout, 4–5 × 2 mm, aciculi absent. Leaves deciduous (north) or semipersistent (south), 8–10 cm; stipules narrowly lanceolate, 10–12 × 2–3 mm, auricles erect, sometimes flared, 2–4 mm, margins fimbriate, stipitate-glandular, surfaces glabrous, eglandular; petiole and rachis with pricklets, glabrous, stipitate-or, sometimes, sessile-glandular; leaflets 7–9, terminal: petiolule 5–9 mm, blade broadly ovate to obovate, 15–30 × 12–20 mm, leathery, base cuneate, margins 1(–2)-serrate, teeth 12–16 per side, acute, gland-tipped, apex acute to acuminate, abaxial surfaces glabrous, eglandular except for glands on midveins, adaxial green, lustrous, glabrous. Panicles (1–)5–20+-flowered. Pedicels 18–25 mm, glabrous, eglandular; bracts 1–3, lanceolate, 9–16 × 2.5–5 mm, margins sparsely stipitate-glandular, surfaces glabrous, eglandular. Flowers ?scent of apple or clover?, 2–2.5 cm diam.; hypanthium urceolate, 4–6.5 × 2–3 mm, eglandular, ?neck (0–)1 × 4–5 mm?; sepals ovate-acuminate, 6–8 × 1–1.5 mm, margins pinnatifid, tip 2 × 0.5 mm, abaxial surfaces glabrous, eglandular; petals double, sometimes single, white, pink to rose distally, 13–15 × 11–15 mm; carpels 12–21, styles pilose, exsert 3.5–5 mm beyond stylar orifice (1.5–2 mm diam.), hypanthial disc ?appearing flattened with age?, 3–4 mm diam. Hips red, globose, 5–10 × 5–9 mm, eglandular. Achenes 1–11, dark tan, 4–4.5 × 2–2.5 mm. 2n = 14(28).
Can be grown by cuttings or seedlings. Seeds needs scarification.
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