Plant: Annual dioecious erect herb; to 6 m tall, without forked hairs Leaves: palmately compound with 3-9 linear to linear-lanceolate leaflets, 3-15 cm long, 0.2-1.7 cm wide, the margins serrate Inflorescence: numerous; staminate inflorescences cymes or panicles, pistillate inflorescences erect or spreading congested spikes Flowers: staminate flowers on pedicels 0.5-3 mm long, the sepals ovate to lanceolate, 2.5-4 mm long; pistillate flowers subsessile, enclosed in a bracteole and subtended by a bract Fruit: white, mottled with purple, lenticular, enclosed by the enlarged persistent calyx Misc: 700-1150 m (2300-3700 ft); Feb-Sep REFERENCES: Mason, Charles T., Jr. 1999. Cannabaceae. Ariz. – Nev. Acad. Sci. 32(1).