Late spring begins the fresh fruit season, and among the early fruits are delicious strawberries. The plant grows from a short thick rootstock anchored to the ground by tough wiry roots.
Large teeth line the edge of the of the dark green leathery leaflets.
The leaflets have exceptionally noticeable veins. Horizontal runners, called stolons, arise at the crown and arch away from the parent plant. Where they touch the soil a new daughter plant develops. At the base of each flower there is a ring of small leafy sepals and bracts. At the base of the petals, a ring of about 20 stamens encircles the raised swollen end of the stem, a structure technically called the receptacle.