A tall and slender shrub reaching a height of 2.5 to 3 m [2] .
Branches , especially flower-bearing, like all leaflets and stipules, are covered with a dense layer of bluish or blue plaque [2] . The bark is red or red-brown.
The thorns are single, unpaired, mostly straight or slightly arcuate-curved, rarely cover, on flower stems almost absent [2] .
The middle leaves of flowering shoots are 7–9 cm long, the main stem is bare and smooth, only occasionally carries two or three small spines, less often dotted with a few short hairs and glands. Stipules broad, especially on flower-bearing branches, glabrous, finely glandular or glandular ciliary along the margin. Leaflets are elongated, ovoid or elliptic, 1.5-2.5 cm long, purple-violet or blue-green, only occasionally dotted with single hairs from below, without admixture of glands, along the edge simply dentate, in the lower part whole-marginal [2] .
Flowers in inflorescences of 3-5, small, up to 3 cm in diameter. Pedicels are short, 10-15 mm long, mostly smooth, less often dotted with stalked glands. Sepals are elongated-lanceolate, 2-2.5 cm long, at the apex with leaf-like extension, whole-edge or with only one or two filiform (not cirrus) lateral lobes, more or less hairy on top, dotted with glands dotted along the bottom and turned after flowering up and remain with ripe fruits. Petals are pink, shorter than sepals. The head of the posts is almost felt. It blooms in June and July [2] .
Fruits are small, do not exceed 1.5 cm in length, spherical or broadly elliptical, smooth [2] .
Central and Atlantic Europe , the Balkans , Asia Minor , Ukraine [2] .
It grows in deciduous forests [2] .
