Common Name: 
Strawberry

About 12 species of highly stoloniferous perennial plants.  Leaves alternate, compound, 3 leaflets.  Flowers white, 5-8 petals, 10-30 stamens, 10-80 carpels.  Fruit many small, glabrous with achenes on the surface of an enlarged, fleshy receptacle.  Native to the northern temperate zones and Chile.
Fragaria: from the Latin fragrans, fragrant, alluding to the aroma of the fruit.

Pronunciation: 
fra-GARE-ree-a
Family: 
Rosaceae