It is a scrambling, tangled shrub with wiry branches, trifoliate, usually toothed leaves, and pink or white flowers.

Bauera rubioides is a scrambling, tangled shrub that typically grows to a height of up to 2 m (6 ft 7 in) and has wiry, extensively-branched stems.

[2][3][4][5][6] Bauera rubioides was first formally described in 1801 by Henry Cranke Andrews in The Botanist's Repository for New, and Rare Plants.

"[8] John Sims recorded in Curtis's Botanical Magazine that "...the trivial name is derived from the resemblance which it bears, especially in its young state, to a Rubia, not a Rubus, as Mr. Andrews, with his usual accuracy, would have it."

[2][3][6][9] Bauera rubioides is readily grown from cuttings and is hardy in moist, well-drained soil in full sun or light shade.