Plant Description:

• Creeping herb that grows in moist depressions on the Prairies and in moist open-woodlands
• Leaflets are coarsely toothed
• White flowers; fruits are reddish and almost round - much smaller than those grown commercially
• Strawberry Tea was used for curing insanity and as a wash for skin problems
• Wilting leaves are poisonous, but are safe when dried
• Fruit is used in jam, jellies and pastries
• Found at Stop 1- on the Interpretive Nature and Hiking Trails

 

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-Sourced from Budd's Flora of the Canadian Prairie Provinces, 1979 and
Plants of the Western Boreal Forest & Aspen Parkland, 1995.
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