This is a common species in the woods, and is colored brown and gray, like dead leaves. It is half an inch long when full grown, and the fourth legs three-quarters of an inch. The upper eyes are larger than pratensis and nidicola, and cover half the width of the head, as in communis. The cephalothorax is light gray in the middle and dark at the sides and around the front of the head. The legs are gray, lighter toward the body and darker toward the ends, marked with indistinct rings, two or three to each joint. The abdomen is gray, with broken darker gray markings forming indistinctly a row of transverse marks in the middle. The sides are darkest toward the front end, where there are two blacks spots. The epigynum differs from that of related species, having the middle lobe narrow in front and wide and triangular at the end.
The Common Spiders of the United States, John Emerton, 1961, Dover Publications. Originally Published by Ginn & Company in 1902.