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Waldsteinia fragarioides
Also called Barren Strawberry, Dry Strawberry
Appalachian barren strawberry is a low, spreading perennial groundcover with yellow five-petaled flowers in early spring, often used as evergreen underplanting. It spreads slowly by underground rhizomes rather than runners, and it is not a true strawberry, bearing no edible fruit.
Waldsteinia fragarioides is a low, spreading perennial groundcover native to eastern North America. It produces yellow five petaled flowers that appear in early spring and is frequently used as an evergreen underplanting in perennial gardens. It lacks above ground runners entirely, spreading strictly via slow moving, subterranean rhizomes creeping just beneath the soil surface.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Waldsteinia fragarioides by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
