mock strawberry

Also known as False Strawberry, Indian Strawberry, Yellow-flowered Strawberry

Mock strawberries carpet lawns, woodland edges, and garden beds with low-growing trifoliate leaves and long, creeping runners. Bright five-petaled yellow flowers bloom throughout spring and summer, setting them apart from the white blossoms of true wild strawberries. Their bumpy, crimson aggregate fruits stand upright above the foliage, where birds and small mammals consume them and disperse the seeds across wide areas.