Barren Strawberry
Waldsteinia ternata
Rosaceae
Growth habit
Herbaceous
Perennation
Long-lived polycarpic perennial
Native distribution
Central Europe to Siberia & Japan
Location
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