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barren strawberry

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barren strawberry
n.
A low-growing, eastern North American perennial herb (Waldsteinia fragarioides) having strawberrylike leaves, yellow flowers, and small, dry, inedible fruit.


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Growing at their feet are a vast variety of herbaceous plants - windflower, goatsbeard, ginger, bergenia, turtlehead, bugsbane, barrenwort, wintergreen, yellow waxbells, woodland phlox, barren strawberry, bloodroot and dozens of others.
In an atmosphere kept perpetually moist by clouds of spray, conditions were perfect for feathery mosses and scaly liverworts that smothered steep banks where the first spring flowers - golden saxifrage and barren strawberry - were beginning to open.
Primroses enjoy the sunnier aspects, wood sorrel and wood anemones shelter beneath the canopy, dog's mercury flourishes in a proudly erect stand and barren strawberry cling to the platform edge.
 
 
 
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