Forewing grey brown, with a rufous tinge: a small blotch at base, a preapical costal spot, and the cell prominently black brown; hindwing fuscous.

[1] The moth flies at night in June and July in the British Isles.

The larva is ochreous brown, black speckled; the lines pale; a row of oblique dark subdorsal bars.

It is polyphagous, feeding on a wide variety of plants including birch, blackthorn, bramble, dock, hawthorn, raspberry and sallow.

Inhabits preferably forest edges, slopes covered with shrubs, heaths and gardens and parkland.