Japan Flora: Much-branched shrub with slender terete nearly glabrous branchlets; leaves broadly deltoid-ovate, slightly pilose to nearly glabrous, caudately acuminate, whitish green beneath, pinnately cleft to lobed, incised and toothed, 3-6 cm. long, 2-3.5 cm. wide, the petioles 4-8 mm. long; stipules linear to broadly lanceolate, ascending, 1.5-7 mm. long; inflorescence paniculate, terminal on young branches, 2-6 cm. long, many­flowered; flowers creamy white, 4-5 mm. across; bracts cadu­cous, broadly linear; petals slightly longer than the calyx; fruiting carpels globose, short-pubescent, about 2 mm. long; seeds shining, about 1.5 mm. across.  May-June. Thickets in low mountains.

Hokkaido (Hidaka Prov.) Honshu, Shi­koku, Kyushu; common. Korea.