Shrubs are compact, 2–4 feet tall and wide, erect to sprawling, unarmed, with bark peeling in strips; leaves small, palmately lobed, toothed. Note the showy, white flowers to 3/8 inch wide (10 mm) in dense, rounded clusters.

FLOWERS: May–July. Dense, rounded clusters to 1 5/8 inches wide (4 cm) with 9–25 white flowers, each 3/8 inch wide (10 mm), 5 small petals elliptic to rounded; stamens protrude above top of flower.

LEAVES: Alternate; stalked; blades broadly oval, 1/2–1 5/8 inches long (1.5–4 cm) with 3–5 rounded lobes; edges doubly toothed, surfaces hairless to sparsely hairy.

HABITAT: Well-drained canyon bottoms, mountain slopes, coniferous woods; pinyon-juniper foothills, ponderosa pine-Dogulas fir, spruce-fir forests.

ELEVATION: 6,500–10,000 feet (2000–3100 m).

RANGE: AZ, CO, MT, NV, NM, OK, SD, TX, UT, WY.

SIMILAR SPECIES: Cliffbush, Jamesia americana, does not have lobed leaves.

NM COUNTIES: New Mexico mountains in mid- to-high elevation, rocky habitats: Bernalillo, Catron, Cibola, Colfax, Dona Ana, Grant, Harding, Lincoln, Los Alamos, McKinley, Mora, Otero, Rio Arriba, San Miguel, Sandoval, Santa Fe, Sierra, Socorro, Taos, Torrance,  Union.