A Botanist’s View of Local Flora – Wild Strawberry

by Dr. F. Alice LeDuc

Wild Strawberry – Fragaria virginiana

We all, well most of us, enjoy a delicious bowl of fresh strawberries, maybe with ice cream. In spring I start by imagining the small plants making a carpet on the ground bursting with dainty white flowers. Throughout the cooler sections of North America from southern Canada to the northern parts of the U.S., you can find wild strawberries growing in woodlands, meadows and glens.…