Size: shrub, 6-10' average height at maturity (10-15' spread)
Buds: lateral buds hidden beneath slightly raised leaf scars
Leaves: deciduous, alternate, 9", pinately compound, 9-15 leaflets, each leaflet 1-2" elliptic to oblong-ovate or oblong, entire and acute to obtuse mucronate margins, blue-green
Twigs: stipular thorns and abundant flexible brownish bristles, gray to red-brown on older wood
Flowers: monoecious, pink or purplish, not fragrant, in pendulous 2-4" clusters
Fruit: brown pod covered with bristles, twists after opening
