In the Community: What's In Bloom
Smooth Wild Strawberry (Fragaria glauca)
This wild version of the cultivated strawberry blooms and bears its sweet fruit from May to July. The flowers are white, 2 cm in diameter with a yellow centre, and loosely clustered. If you find the berries before every other creature in the wild, they are red when ripe and approximately 1 cm in size. The plants grow along the ground in open relatively moist areas, sending down roots at intervals from which new plants grow. The leaves are three-lobed with toothed edges. Wild strawberries are useful not only for their delicious fruit but First Nations people also used the leaves for many medicines and tonics.
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