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