This is a Southern Ontario native plant. I have this growing in my native plant garden in my downtown Hamilton, Ontario home. The plant s...Read Moretarts growing as early as mid March, and by this early May the plant has started to bear white flowers in clusters. It is very easy to propagate by plantlets from the runners it sends out. I actually got my plant from a local wild patch as a plantlet from a runner. This patch of wild strawberries as of this May is full of white flowers with plenty of native insects buzzing around trying to get to the nectar.
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Per Rogier van Vugt, the Head Gardener at the greenhouses at Leiden University and at Hortus botanicus Leiden, from Noordwijk, Zuid-Holla...Read Morend, Netherlands:
"The best tasting wild strawberry is probably this one. Fragaria virginiana. It is one of the parents of the common strawberry we all know and gave it its taste and aroma."
Wild Strawberry grows well in many different conditions from shade to sun, and from dry to moist. The fruit is smaller but much more flav...Read Moreorful than commercial strawberries. The plant and fruit are also beneficial to native wildlife. This is a great plant to add to native gardens as it will grow will with them and help to cover bare dirt.
This is ornamental, but both the plant and its fruits are tiny compared will cultivated hybrids. The fruits are much sweeter and more fla...Read Morevorful than the cultivated sort, but it takes hours to gather a cupful.
The ecological value of Wild Strawberry to various insects, birds, and animals is high. The flowers attract long-tongued bees, short-tong...Read Moreued bees, flies, small butterflies, and skippers. Among these, small bees are the most important pollinator of the flowers; this includes such visitors as Little Carpenter bees, Nomadine Cuckoo bees, Mason bees, Halictid bees, and Andrenine bees. The caterpillars of several species of moths feed on the foliage and flowers of Wild Strawberry. Other insects that feed on Wild Strawberry include Chactosiphum fragraefolii (Strawberry Aphid), Aphis forbesi (Strawberry Root Aphid), and Otiochynchus ovatus (Strawberry Root Weevil). Various upland gamebirds, songbirds, and mammals eat the fruit or foliage, including such prairie-inhabiting species as Tympanuchus cupido (Greater Prairie Chicken) and Phasianus colchicus (Ring-Necked Pheasant). These birds and animals help to distribute the seeds far and wide. People also nibble on the fruits.
This is a Southern Ontario native plant. I have this growing in my native plant garden in my downtown Hamilton, Ontario home. The plant s...Read More
Per Rogier van Vugt, the Head Gardener at the greenhouses at Leiden University and at Hortus botanicus Leiden, from Noordwijk, Zuid-Holla...Read More
Wild Strawberry grows well in many different conditions from shade to sun, and from dry to moist. The fruit is smaller but much more flav...Read More
This is ornamental, but both the plant and its fruits are tiny compared will cultivated hybrids. The fruits are much sweeter and more fla...Read More
The ecological value of Wild Strawberry to various insects, birds, and animals is high. The flowers attract long-tongued bees, short-tong...Read More