Mature plants develop a papery case over the berry.
Found throughout the eastern United states, west to Utah and Texas, also found in Washington. Plants emerging from rhizomes lack cotyledons. Alternate, ovate, 1-3 inches long, margins are either continuous and untoothed or shallowly indented. Hairs are short and dense along the margins and on the lower leaf surface, but few and scattered on the upper surface. Deeply buried thick rhizomes.