Their leaves are often lobed and both petioles and stipules are generally present. The leaf blades are often lobed or toothed, and are borne on long petioles. A medium size slender shrub reaching , often unbranched with reddish brown petioles. The leaves are in opposite pairs, triangular and crenate, sessile or with short petioles. Glands or extrafloral nectaries may be present on leaf margins or petioles. They have very short petioles and velvety undersides. Petioles slender, slightly grooved, hairy. Leaf petioles and stems are densely covered in rust-colored hairs. The leaves are borne on petioles (i.e., leaf stalks) generally long. The species have large somewhat triangular shaped leaves with long, fleshy petioles. Common greenbrier climbs other plants using green tendrils growing out of the petioles. Normally used for flowers and foliage with long pliable petioles or stems. There are usually several basal leaves borne on long petioles. It has large, undivided leaves, with succulent petioles (stalks). Modern cultivars have been selected for solid petioles, leaf stalks.