Fragaria,
plant in the rose family. Plants with wood-linked, circular-composed leaves, creeping, above ground runners, and white flowers with many stamen. Garden strawberries, F. ananassa, which come from a cross between foreign types, can be cultivated alm ost entirely throughout Norway in all types of soil, but the plants are not particularly hardy. The most important varieties are Jonsok, Glima, and Zefyr which ripen early, and Senga Sengana which ripen later.