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Plants 1.3–2 m. Stems erect to sprawling, glabrous or puberulent; spines at nodes sometimes absent or 1–3, 7–18 mm; prickles on internodes absent or scattered. Leaves: petiole 0.7–2 cm, hairy, with longer and often plumose hairs and elongated glands near base, short-stipitate glands absent; blade roundish, 3-lobed, cleft nearly to midrib, 1.7–3 cm, base broadly cuneate to rounded or subcordate, sometimes truncate, surfaces not glandular, villous-tomentose abaxially, puberulent to hirsute, glabrescent adaxially, lobes straight-sided to sometimes cuneate, margins toothed, apex rounded. Inflorescences pendent, solitary flowers or 2–4-flowered corymbs, 3–5 cm, axis glabrous or sparsely lanate to pilose and puberulent, sparingly stipitate-glandular, flowers evenly spaced. Pedicels not jointed, 5–13 mm, glabrous; bracts broadly ovate, 2–2.5 mm, ciliate. Flowers: hypanthium greenish white, narrowly tubular, 1.5–2.5 mm, glabrous; sepals not overlapping, spreading to reflexed, pale green to white, linear-oblong, 5–7 mm; petals connivent, erect, pale green to nearly white, becoming pink tinged, cuneate-obovate, not conspicuously revolute or inrolled, 2–3.5 mm; nectary disc not prominent; stamens 3–5 times as long as petals; filaments linear, 15 mm, glabrous; anthers cream to pale pink, oblong-sagittate, 2 mm, apex rounded; ovary glabrous; styles connate nearly 7/8 their lengths, 10–14 mm, glabrous. Berries palatable, red to purple, globose, 7–12 mm, glabrous. 2n = 16.