Distribution: Occurring chiefly east of the Cascades crest in Washington; British Columbia to California, east across North America to the Atlantic Coast.

Habitat: Disturbed ground.

Flowers: June-September

Origin: Introduced from Eurasia

Growth Duration: Perennial

Conservation Status: Not of concern

Pollination: Self-pollination, bees, hummingbirds

Glabrous shrub with long, weak, sparsely thorny, arched or climbing branches, 1-6 m. tall.

Leaves short-petiolate, entire, dull, elliptic to lanceolate or oblanceolate, up to 7 cm. long and 3.5 cm. wide on new growth, much smaller on old wood.

Flowers 1-3 in the leaf axils on pedicels 0.7-2 cm. long; calyx tubular, with 3-6 short lobes; corolla lavender or purplish, 9-14 mm. long, tubular, with 5 broad, spreading lobes about equaling the tube; stamens 5; style solitary, ovary superior.

Fruit a red berry, ellipsoid or ovoid, 1-2 cm. long.