Is it unusual for strawberry plants to have four leaves?
Question:
Not really an important question, but one of my strawberry plants has four leaves instead of three. I was wondering if this was unusual like a 4-leaf clover? I wasn’t able to find anything useful about how common this might be online.
Answer:
Donna Coffin, Extension Professor
Strawberries “typically” have three leaflets on each leaf petiole, but as you found, they can have more. I don’t know how often this happens, although I have seen it in plants before.