Fruit
give rise to the plant's common name - Ground Plum
Many-stemmed, procumbent growth habit. Plants measured to 48 cm diameter and 8 cm tall. Flowers creamy-white with some purple colouring. Flowers to 2 cm long and grow in a globose spike. Leaves pinnate, we counted up to 29 leaflets, the leaflets elliptical to oblong in shape. We measured a leaf at 7.5 cm long and 2.5 cm wide. Stems and bottom of leaves pubescent, top of leaves glabrous.
Fruit are large, roundish, red when ripe. Edible, taste to me like an apple. Fruit measured to 2 cm in length.
Common in grassland on prairie and in the Parklands.
Photos taken June 2nd, prairie hilltop, Old Man on His Back Eco Reserve, about 500 km southwest of our home in Regina, SK.