Scientific name: Fragaria vesca L.
Common name: Wild Strawberry
Description
Habit: A stoloniferous perennial, flowering stems to 30 cm high.
Stems: Trailing, with slender runners forming new plants at nodes.
Leaves: Mostly basal, compound with 3 leaflets, with a hairy stalk and leafy stipules; leaflets oval, toothed, light green, 1-6 cm long, silky hairy on underside.
Flowers: White, actinomorphic, hermaphrodite, 1-2 cm across, in loose and irregular cymes of about 6 flowers; calyx of 5 sepals; petals 5, free, close together; stamens numerous; carpels numerous; with hypanthium.
Fruits: A fruit consisting of numerous, small, seed-like achenes on the surface of the swollen red receptacle.
Habitat: Woods, scrub, roadsides, rocky ground.Distribution: Abundant in the Burren, occasional to frequent elsewhere.
Native status: Native
Of conservation interest: No