Snake fruit grass is snakeberry grass, a perennial herb, the whole plant is pilose; stolons long. Leaves are palmately trilobed, 3 out of compound leaves, with stipules; leaflets rhombic-ovate or obovate, the two sides of the leaflets smaller, the base oblique, the edge of the obtuse serrate, both surfaces scattered plant morphology of pilose or the surface nearly glabrous; Stipules ovate-lanceolate, sometimes notched-like division. Flowers yellow, solitary in leaf axils; calyx in two whorls, usually 3-toothed; petals several as long as epicalyx segments or sepals. Aggregate fruit subglobose or long ellipsoid, dark red, covering persistent sepals. Fl. April, fr. May.

Hardy, preferring to be born in shady and moist environments, not choosing soil, but growing well on humus-rich, well-drained soil. Produced in the province, wild slopes, roadsides, ditches or ridges in weeds; distributed throughout the country.