Arborescent shrub or tree to 10 m, the top tending to be compact and conical; twigs glabrous, or villous when young; lvs glabrous, or often roughly short-hairy above at least when young, broad-based, mostly ovate to suborbicular, with 3-5 pairs of lateral lobes, mostly 3-7 נ2.5-6 cm; fls 1.3-2 cm wide, in glabrous or villous compound cymes; petiole 1/3-4/5 as long as the blade, often glandular; sep glandular-serrate, usually deeply so; fr 0.7-1.3 cm thick, bright red and often succulent, with 3-5 nutlets. N. Engl. and se. Can. to Del. and W.Va. (and in the mts. to N.C.), w. to Minn., Ill., and Ky. (C. confragosa; C. hillii; C. holmesiana; C. pedicellata; C. pennsylvanica; C. pringlei; C. putnamiana; C. tortilis)
Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp.