Seasonal Wild Flowers

Wild Strawberry

Fragaria vesca

Rosaceae

The main season is April to July.

It is found throughout the country

See the BSBI distribution map for Wild Strawberry

It grows on dry grassy banks, hedge banks, rocky, stony

areas and walls, woodland and scrub.

Wild Strawberry is a native, stoloniferous, prostrate,

perennial herb growing up to 30cm.

Flowers are 12-18mm across and have 5 unnotched

white petals with no spaces between them.

Leaves are trefoil in shape and shiny green above when

they first appear.

The deep red berries have protruding pips and down-

turned sepals.

They are tasty but require patience to pick enough for a

mouthful.

It spreads by seed and rooting stolons (runners).

Wild Strawberry flowers

Overlapping petals, stamens and ovules

Dark, shiny upper leaves

Fruit

Wild Strawberry runners