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May 15, 2010
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Southeastern, New Hampshire
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Wild Strawberry is a low-to-the-ground plant with three leaflets on a leaf stalk (petiole).
Each leaflet is sharply-toothed on the upper 50% of the leftlet and without teeth on
the lower portion of the leaflet. One of the distinguishing features of Wild Strawberry
is that the center tooth on each leaflet is noticably smaller than the other teeth.
Wild Strawberry has a 5-petal white flower with a yellow center consisting of approximately
25 stamen. The plant produces long runners (up to 2 feet long) which can re-root and
create new strawberry plants. Wild Strawberry blooms in the late Spring and early
Summer. The is one of the two original strawberry plants that were hybridized to
make the typical garden strawberry. (The other strawberry plant was from Chile.)
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