Don’t Let This IMPOSTER Strawberry Fool You!

🍓🍓🍓🍓 Learn more about the mock strawberry and our native strawberries in this video: https://youtu.be/ARD3xj5Ewvo 🍓🍓🍓🍓

The two species of wild strawberry native to eastern North America, the Virginia strawberry, Fragaria virginiana, and the woodland strawberry. Fragaria vesca, are great as a groundcover or in the pollinator garden. Of course they have the bonus of producing tasty strawberries! Pollinators such as native bees and butterflies are drawn to the blooms and the leaves serve as host for a multitude of caterpillar species. Of course the berries are eaten by all sorts of critters and birds. There is an introduced imposter, the mock strawberry, Potentilla indica, that looks a lot like a strawberry, but that is about all it has in common with them. Learn about our native strawberries and how to tell them apart from the mock strawberry, and how our third native species of strawberry, the beach strawberry, Fragaria chiloensis, which is found on the west coast, along with the Virginia strawberry, played a part in producing the garden strawberries we know and love.

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did you know this plant is the mock strawberry potentilla indicia and it is an introduced invasive species that as its scientific name suggest is native to India in surrounding areas but can now be found across the Eastern United States and even into Southern Canada at first glance mock strawberry looks a lot like an actual strawberry plant but there are a few key differences first it has bright yellow flowers so it is an easy ID if it is blooming another huge difference is the fruit MCH strawberry fruits form on the plant pointing upward and are very visible the nearly round fruits of Mach strawberry also have very pronounced seeds and look slightly spiky this plant is considered invasive in many of the areas it has been introduced into and can form dense ground covering mats that inhibit native plant growth it has no Wildlife value and should be controlled when found to allow more beneficial native plants to grow