Whitestem has almost black berries, while Rocky Mountain has red fruits. Both of these plants have spines and palmate leaves.

Their combination of stolons, small red berries, and toothed leaves has ... the fruit and its leafy green sepals face upward as the plants mature. Wild strawberries don't do any of these things.

For many years, Valle Novak wrote gardening and cooking columns for the Daily Bee. "Weekend Gardener" and "Country Chef" ...