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Mock Strawberry

Potentilla indica

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Field Notes

Description:

Low growing, creeping plant. Small yellow flowers with five widely placed petals. Leaves composed of three small, toothed leaflets. Produces small, red, strawberry-like fruit that are edible but mostly tasteless. Rose family.

Habitat:

Lawn area within the Bronx Zoo, New York.

Notes:

Introduced from India. Considered a weed in many places in the United States. Leaves are edible cooked.

Reference Links:

Mock strawberry, US Wildflower - Indian Strawberry, India Mockstrawberry - Duchesnea indica

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Edible and Useful Plants of the East

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