Barren Strawberry

Waldsteinia ternata Rosaceae

Growth habit

Herbaceous

Perennation

Long-lived polycarpic perennial

Native distribution

Central Europe to Siberia & Japan

Location

Houston and Grossman Ponds

Source of plant

Bluebird Nursery, Cunningham Gardens

Description

Rootstock of short rhizomes with many fibrous roots. Plants with pilose, creeping stems, with terminal foliage rosettes. Leaves long-petioled, evergreen, to 10cm high, ternate, leaflets with short petiolules, leathery, glossy, rather densely pubescent. Flowers to 15mm in diameter, yellow, borne up to 7 in a loosely clustered raceme.

USDA Hardiness Zone

3