Unarmed shrub 1-2 m, the younger parts, petioles, and pedicels usually stipitate-glandular; lvs rotund to reniform in outline, 1-2 dm wide, shallowly ca 5-lobed, the lobes serrate, acute; fls few, white, in a long-pedunculate cymose cluster; sep with orange-yellow very short gland-tipped hairs; pet elliptic-ovate, 1.5-2 cm; fr juicy, edible, red, 1.5 cm thick, pubescent, falling as a unit from the persistent receptacle; 2n=14. Open woods and thickets; Bruce Peninsula, Ont., to n. Mich. and n. Minn.; S.D.; widespread in the western cordillera. May-July. (Rubacer p.)
Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp.