Erect, bushy plant with showy clusters of red or white berries in mid-summer. Flowers are white, borne in dense racemes, with a slight fragrance. Flowers to 15 mm diameter, racemes to 3 cm long. Leaves compound, leaflets oval, deeply incised, terminal leaflets measured to 6 cm long and 6 cm wide. Stems glabrous, petioles hairy, leaflets with a few hairs on top, hairy on bottom of leaflets.

Common in rich woodlands.

Height listed in Budd's Flora to 100 cm. I've measured plants to 82 cm tall.

The above photos were taken June 4th mixed woods in the Cypress Hills, about 400 km southwest of our home in Regina, SK.