Plant: woody shrub; Canes 1-2 m long, erect to decumbent; old epidermis of floricanes flaking off; plants in ours pubescent and glandular; prickles many, slender, narrow-based, terete or subterete, at most only moderately down-curved, often gland-tipped Leaves: deciduous, green above, gray to white below; leaflets usually lanceolate; margins irregularly serrate to doubly serrate, sometimes lobed; primocane leaves in ours 7-16 cm long, 5-15 cm wide, pinnately 3-9-foliolate; floricane leaves 2-8(-11) cm long, 2-7 cm wide, pinnately 3-5(-7)-foliolate INFLORESCENCE: simple obscurely bracteate cymes with 1-4 flowers terminating short side-branches of the floricane or in leaf axils, sometimes surpassing the leaves Flowers: sepals ascending, caudate, 4-12(-20) mm long, the main portion deltoid to narrowly lanceolate; ovaries tomentose; styles glabrous Fruit: large, tasty, spherical to sub-hemispherical, weakly coherent, separating from the torus; drupelets bright red, tomentulose, fleshy Misc: Pine, fir, and spruce forests often in wet or rocky places; 1850-3500 m (6000-11500 ft); (May-)Jun-Aug(-Sep) REFERENCES: Brasher, Jeffrey W. 2001. Rosaceae. J. Ariz. – Nev. Acad. Sci. Volume 33(1).