barren strawberry

noun

a low-growing plant, Waldsteinia fragarioides, of the rose family, native to north temperate regions, having long stalks with three toothed leaflets and yellow flowers.

An Americanism dating back to 1890–95; so called because the fruit is dry and inedible

Dog-violets, barren strawberry, and the yellowish-green spurge are in flower there now.

Neither is there any demand for the white barren strawberry blossom, or the purplish ground-ivy among the finely marked fern moss.

One tiny white flower of barren strawberry has ventured to bloom.

April 25, 2024firkin

[fur-kin ]

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