Shrubs, erect, ?forming small thickets?; rhizomatous or not. Stems erect, ?glaucous, stout?, 10–20 dm; distal branches often flexuous, bark reddish, ?± pruinose or glaucous?; infrastipular prickles single or paired, curved or erect, 6–9 × 3–4 mm, lengths ± uniform, internodal prickles sometimes present, aciculi absent. Leaves deciduous, 6–10(–18) cm; stipules 10–14 × 3–5 mm, auricles 3–4 mm, margins short stipitate-glandular, surfaces usually glabrous, sometimes pubescent, glandular; petiole and rachis with pricklets, pubescent, glandular; leaflets 5–7, terminal: petiolule 6–12(–40) mm, blade ovate to narrowly or broadly elliptic, 30–45(–65) × 15–30(–45) mm, base rounded, sometimes slightly cuneate, margins 2-or multi-serrate, teeth 17–26 per side, apex acute or rounded, abaxial surfaces ?light green, ± rugose?, tomentose, densely resinous-glandular, ?glands reddish brown, resin-scented?, adaxial green, dull, tomentulose or glabrous, eglandular. Inflorescences panicles, 1–3(or 4)-flowered. Pedicels erect to reflexed as hips mature, 12–17 mm, sparsely stipitate-glandular; bracts 2, ovate-lanceolate, 16–21 × 4–6 mm, margins glandular, surfaces tomentose to puberulent or glabrous, glandular or eglandular. Flowers 2.5–3.5 cm diam.; hypanthium globose, 5–6 × 5 mm, eglandular or sparsely stipitate-glandular, neck absent; sepals spreading to erect, lanceolate, 15–20 × 3–3.5 mm, margins sometimes pinnatifid, tip 4–8 × 1.5–2 mm, abaxially densely stipitate-glandular; petals deep rose pink, rarely white, 15–19 × 13–15 mm; carpels 52, styles lanate or villous, exsert 1–2 mm beyond stylar orifice (2.5 mm diam.) of hypanthial disc (4.3 mm diam.). Hips orange to bright red, globose or obovoid to ellipsoid, 13–18 × 11–18 mm, glabrous, sparsely stipitate-glandular; sepals persistent, usually spreading-erect. Achenes 40, tan, 5–5.5 × 2.5–3 mm. 2n = 28, 35, 42.
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A dense shrub. It grows 2 m high and spreads 1.8 m wide. It loses its leaves during the year. The leaves are bluish-green and hairy. The flowers are single and deep pink. They are in clusters. The fruit are urn shaped hips and are red.
Can be grown by cuttings or seedlings. Seeds needs scarification.
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