Description ²

• Shape: Multi-stemmed creeping shrub
• Leaf/Branch Arrangement: Alternate
• Flower: White simple shaped, 5 petals
• Leaves: palmately lobed, 5-7 lobes, 1-2 inches long, 1 ¼-3 inches wide, coarsely toothed, heart shaped base
• Bark: smooth, gray, tiny brown lenticels, the thin outer layer peels away
• Fruit/Seed: round berry, ¼-3/8 inch diameter, covered in bristly and glandular hairs, ripens to translucent red
• Height: 1-3 feet
• Flowering: May - June
• Habitat: swamps, bogs, conifer and mixed forests, thickets, ravines, rocky shores
• Other: leaves and stems emit skunk-like odor when broken

Sources and Credits

1. (c) Sirpale79, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), http://www.flickr.com/photos/sirpale79/384009977/
2. (c) Minnesota Scientific and Natural Areas, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA)

More Info

• iNat taxon page
• Biodiversity Heritage Library
• BOLD Systems BIN search
• eFloras.org
• Flora of North America (beta)
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
• Go Botany
• HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants
• IPNI (with links to POWO, WFO, and BHL)
• Maryland Biodiversity Project
• NatureServe Explorer 2.0
• SEINet Symbiota portals
• Tropicos
• USDA PLANTS database
• VASCAN by Canadensys
• World Flora Online

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