Woodland Strawberry

Also known as Alpine Strawberry, Wild Strawberry, Carpathian Strawberry, European Strawberry

Woodland strawberries colonize forest edges and dappled clearings across the Northern Hemisphere, spreading efficiently via slender reddish runners called stolons. Their small white five-petaled blossoms appear from mid-spring to early summer, providing early nectar to solitary bees and hoverflies. As the red aggregate fruits mature, their surface achenes are widely distributed by songbirds, small rodents, and woodland mammals.