Size: shrub, 5-10' average height at maturity, 6-10' spread
Buds: dark brown to black
Leaves: deciduous, alternate, 1-3" long, .5-1.5" wide, simple, usually 3-5 lobes, sometimes no lobes, crenate or dentate margins, lobes may be acute or obtuse, medium green in summer, yellow or brown in fall
Twigs: glabrous, red-brown when young, conspicuous decurrent lines on each side of leaf scar, fruit pedicels persistent at twig tips
Flowers: monoecious, white, sometimes pinkish, in many-flowered corymbs
Fruit: 3-5 .25" reddish follicles
Bark: exfoliates after two years
