Species: Garden Strawberry (Fragaria ananassa)
Family: Roses (ROSACEAE)
Category: Flowering Plants
Location: SW
A. Flowering Plants
More extensive information on flowering plants can be found in a separate blog post.
B. Roses (ROSACEAE)
The Rose family gives us many of our most commercially important fruits, such as the Prunus species. They have alternate leaves and 5-petalled flowers.
C. Garden Strawberry (Fragaria ananassa)
This familiar escapee needs no introduction.
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Garden Strawberry
The Garden Strawberry is an escapee that has made its way into Heene Cemetery.
Garden Strawberry
As a solitary plant in the Cemetery, this is more valuable to pollinating insects, such as bees and hoverflies, than to us as fruit.
Garden Strawberry
The fruit of the Garden Strawberry - an escape from nearby gardens, no doubt deposited in the Cemetery as seeds by birds - produces just a few fruit.
