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3 Native Strawberries and an Invasive Imposter!
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The two species of wild strawberry native to eastern North America, the Virginia strawberry, Fragaria virginiana, and the woodland strawberry. Fragaria vesca, are great as a groundcover or in the pollinator garden. Of course they have the bonus of producing tasty strawberries! Pollinators such as native bees and butterflies are drawn to the blooms and the leaves serve as host for a multitude of caterpillar species. Of course the berries are eaten by all sorts of critters and birds. There is an introduced imposter, the mock strawberry, Potentilla indica, that looks a lot like a strawberry, but that is about all it has in common with them. Learn about our native strawberries and how to tell them apart from the mock strawberry, and how our third native species of strawberry, the beach strawberry, Fragaria chiloensis, which is found on the west coast, along with the Virginia strawberry, played a part in producing the garden strawberries we know and love.
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Chapters:
0:00 There are Three Native Strawberries and an Imposter!
0:32 The Virginia Strawberry, Fragaria virginiana, Native Range, Bloom, Fruit, Size, Growing Conditions
1:24 The Woodland Strawberry, Fragaria vesca, Native Range, Bloom, Fruit, Size, Growing Conditions
2:48 How to Tell the Virginia Strawberry, Fragaria virginiana, and the Woodland Strawberry, Fragaria vesca, Apart, Differences in the Fruit, Differences in the Leaves
3:40 The Beach Strawberry, Fragaria chiloensis, Range, How it Was Used to Develop the Garden Strawberry, Fragaria x ananassa, Where Garden Strawberries Came From
4:58 A Quick Word About the Backyard Ecology Patreon
5:23 Wildlife and Pollinator Use of Wild Strawberries, Host Plant, What Eats Strawberry Leaves, What Eats Strawberries
6:16 The Mock Strawberry, Potentilla indica, Range, Invasiveness Fruit Description, Taste, Are Mock Strawberries Toxic
6:41 How to Tell Wild Strawberry From Mock Strawberry by the Bloom, Fruit, and Leaves, Fruit Description, Taste, Are Mock Strawberries Toxic
8:36 Another Great Native Ground Cover the Violets, Viola Species
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@knyghtryder3599 3 ай бұрын
Bro I need your help, please make a similar native VS invasive video for Thistle, I just ordered some native thistle seeds , but we let invasive thistle grow in our yard our first year cuz birds and bees liked it , but 3 years later we still have sprouts coming up and we don't want to kill natives !!!!
@BackyardEcology 3 ай бұрын
@@knyghtryder3599 A native vs non-native thistle video is on my list!
@larryhatfield7372 3 ай бұрын
@@BackyardEcologythese use to grow everywhere around where I live , now you can't find them , do you know where I can order plants ??
@BackyardEcology 3 ай бұрын
@@larryhatfield7372 Best bet is to contact your states native plant society. They will likely know of a nearby nursery that has them!
@bethbartlett5692 3 ай бұрын
Yes to Native Ground overs, particularly those that work in shade. 😉
@oxford821 4 ай бұрын
Darn. All this time I thought I had a good patch of wild strawberries. Nope
@BackyardEcology 4 ай бұрын
I have a feeling you are not the only one. Most people I run into think the mock strawberry is the wild strawberry because it is so prevalent.
@PlantNative 4 ай бұрын
I have been removing the invasive each year as soon as it pops up. It prompted me to grow Fragaria virginiana and it is spectacular and yummy.
@BackyardEcology 4 ай бұрын
@@PlantNative Nice! The mock strawberries seem to show up everywhere!
@ltlwlwl5057 3 ай бұрын
Me too! 😢
@wendyleslie6461 3 ай бұрын
Same! Good thing they're not poisonous, I ate some. 😂
@biddibee3526 3 ай бұрын
My grandmother would send us kids out into the field to pick these so that she could make pie. I remember going inside crying because of the black fly swarms. My grandmother took no pity she said pick faster. 😂
@toddmoore9841 3 ай бұрын
As a kid my parent's yard was covered in Virginia strawberries. I discovered that if I set the mower deck high and mowed before the plants flowered, they would flower and fruit low in the grass, below the cutting blades. I would get sweet treats for months as a reward for mowing.
@BackyardEcology 3 ай бұрын
Awesome! There is a lot to be said for setting the mower deck high.
@kellyharper367 3 ай бұрын
Thank you for sharing your "sweet" story!
@lauraw.7008 2 ай бұрын
I love that!
@stefleopard9975 3 ай бұрын
“The rice cakes of the fruit world” got me good 😂
@garyb.4080 3 ай бұрын
Well, I have mock strawberries in my yard, and while they don’t have the taste of a true strawberry, if you pick a small handful, they do taste like a strawberry, very subdued!
@BackyardEcology 3 ай бұрын
If they get plenty of water they may have some small amount of flavor but if it an area is moist enough for a mock strawberry to have a little taste, it is moist enough to plant some native strawberries.
@digi_056 3 ай бұрын
I’ve had mock-strawberries before, they tasted a bit like watermelon to me!
@BackyardEcology 3 ай бұрын
@@digi_056 There have been a few others that have said the same thing. I think it depends on how much water they are getting.
@dragondancer1814 3 ай бұрын
Speak for yourself-I’ve tasted them, and they’re bland as dust to me. Not to mention that they spread worse than anything and have no respect for my flower garden space!
@tonycartell8836 2 ай бұрын
Also has major health benefits
@Fligbot 3 ай бұрын
I used to eat the fake strawberry like crazy as a kid lmao. I loved them despite them not having much flavor unless you ate a handful at once and then they would finally have some taste but one at a time they don't.
@rainbow_vader 3 ай бұрын
At least them shits aren't poisonous like most imposters are 💀
@earlwright9715 3 ай бұрын
Lol , im glad they were not poisonous, ive been eating everytime i see one😂
@SukkaPunch321 3 ай бұрын
I like Mock Strawberries…. Maybe I’m a full rice cake type
@-crazypants-3199 3 ай бұрын
Wild strawberries and blueberries just taste so much better.
@BackyardEcology 3 ай бұрын
I agree!
@matchpoint14 2 ай бұрын
crazypants, they are also 5 times as nutritious
@Bobrogers99 2 ай бұрын
My theory is that there is a finite amount of flavor available for each berry. You get it in a concentrated form in the smaller wild berries, or diluted in the bigger, more watery commercial ones. It takes more time and patience to pick the wild ones, but it's well worth the effort.
@thebiggestpanda1 3 ай бұрын
Mock strawberries are a chickens favorite treat.
@EmilyTienne 3 ай бұрын
Used to have about half an acre of wild strawberries. I miss them so much! They were an absolute treat.
@matchpoint14 2 ай бұрын
Emily, I have some and some black berries and blue berries I will share if you are in GA USA
@roxannewoel7754 4 ай бұрын
More native ground covers please. Great information!
@BackyardEcology 4 ай бұрын
Thanks! I have a few groundcover ideas in the works.
@christianhansen3292 3 ай бұрын
native eyelid? not sure what u were saying..
@patriciaribaric3409 3 ай бұрын
I love how the violets made their way into my strawberry beds. Those invasive mock strawberries that made their way into my yard are indeed dry, mealy, and tasteless.
@BackyardEcology 3 ай бұрын
Violets and strawberries go great together!
@georgemcduffey2622 3 ай бұрын
While the mock strawberries have little taste they do have a nice texture, some nutritional value (good source of vitamin C and dietary fiber, w/traces of iron/VitA/etc), and the flowers/leaves have medicinal properties. You can mock them all you want; They still share this land with all of us.
@BackyardEcology 3 ай бұрын
They are edible, but I wouldn't consider them something I'd want to eat unless I had to. And while they do have some medicinal uses I would rather have native species growing where the mock strawberries are crowding them out.
@georgemcduffey2622 3 ай бұрын
@@BackyardEcology It's not its fault it's here...no more invasive than you and I. Technically many plants have naturalized here that foragers use regularly. From plantains to dandelion to garlic mustard. I find one of the best ways to reduce non-native species is to eat them, or drink them:)
@BackyardEcology 3 ай бұрын
@@georgemcduffey2622 People don't eat them fast enough to make a dent in their populations.
@kathleenhowell9362 3 ай бұрын
It's interesting to me the kinds of things people will or won't tolerate in their yards. What's considered ornamental, beneficial, invasive, etc. I have a friend who lives down the street who takes such care of his lawn, you won't find a single weed in it ever. He thinks it's funny when I excitedly talk about some interesting little plant that just randomly started growing in our yard (because we don't do anything more than mow).
@kathleenhowell9362 3 ай бұрын
I don't think I could get rid of all our mock strawberries if I tried. It's like I'd have to spray the whole front and back yard with Roundup. And I really don't want to do that, for fear of what else might get hurt/killed. Plus, I like them anyway.
@minibuns6220 3 ай бұрын
Mock Strawberries are great when Pickled for charcuterie boards or thin sliced for sandwiches Yum
@BackyardEcology 3 ай бұрын
Interesting.
@charleshash4919 3 ай бұрын
Here in Montana we have something similar to the Mock Strawberry, namely Potentilla uniflora. It is a very aggressive ground cover, and particularly useful on high pH clay soils where strawberries typically show strong iron-deficiency symptoms. In contrast to strawberry's yellow-green foliage, the leaves of Potentilla uniflora remain dark green on these alkaline soils and these plants effectively suppress other weeds. The bright red fruit, unfortunately, is completely without merit unless you are an American Robin, a Ringnecked Pheasant or a Hungarian Partridge. So if you are willing to share some of your produce with the birds, and want an aggressive groundcover under fruit trees ..., then you may want to try sharing parts of your garden with Potentilla uniflora.
@BackyardEcology 3 ай бұрын
There are many native potentillas across the U.S. I may do a video featuring some of them.
@Chris-us6pk 3 ай бұрын
Here in my bummie I have something called dingleberries. Small and flavorful. Yum!
@2degucitas 3 ай бұрын
@@Chris-us6pk Chris 🤨
@samsmom1491 Ай бұрын
@@2degucitas Some little kid (@Chris) got on mommy's computer again.
@daffers2345 3 ай бұрын
We used to call mock strawberries "Indian strawberries." This video helped me figure out why. The mock strawberries we had around here were not bitter or anything. They were pretty bland, mostly, but sometimes there was a bit of sweetness. It was thought that they were poisonous because they had 3 leaves! I thought it was fun to forage, so I would often eat them for the novelty.
@alexandroquintero1964 3 ай бұрын
interesting. do you think that's because poison oak/poison ivy have the same basic leaf shape (3 leaflets)?
@daffers2345 2 ай бұрын
@@alexandroquintero1964 Yeah, we were always taught "Leaves of 3, let it be." That way you definitely wouldn't eat poison ivy or something. I think I read a book about these or something, because I somehow knew they were fine to eat.
@TheWoodsmanMilling 3 ай бұрын
Something about the texture of the mock strawberries makes me like them. Out of all of the kinds of berries, blackberries are my favorite, though.
@jeremypatrickrayvasquezzyq1212 3 ай бұрын
Girl gonna need that native ground cover video!!
@BackyardEcology 3 ай бұрын
There will be more native ground covers coming soon!
@jadedrealist 3 ай бұрын
I like mock strawberries, been eating them since I was a kid. I enjoy their tecture, kind of a crunch. They grow out here in Cali too.
@Aderon 3 ай бұрын
I remember my grandmother had a particular hiking trail she liked to take near her home where we could reliably find wild woodland strawberries to forage for and have as a treat after lunch. Such a sweet little secret she found among the Rockies.
@BackyardEcology 3 ай бұрын
That is awesome!
@kathleenhowell9362 3 ай бұрын
We have these "mock strawberries" growing wild scattered all over our front and back yards. At first, I didn't know what they were or that they're safe to eat until my husband picked one and ate it. Now, they are one of the reasons I look forward to spring. If the weather is favourable, we can get a pretty good sized harvest. You're right, they don't have much flavour on their own, so I typically stir them into the batter for pancakes or put them in cereal. 😋 We also have some of those "native violets" (I've been calling them "violas"--oops) growing wild in our front yard. We have way more of them this spring than we've ever had before and I'm super excited about it... even more so now that I know they're helpful to bees and butterflies and not just that "they look so pretty."
@OvGraphics Ай бұрын
Well I'll be double dipped. I am old yard guy and you just taught me a new trick! Yes, I have fake strawberries. Well I never! I'd cheat and upvote this one 6 times if I knew how Mr. Ecology! Woof! Good one!
@BackyardEcology Ай бұрын
Thanks!
@laurahunt1629 4 ай бұрын
Mock strawberries are delicious paired with gravel and blended.
@BackyardEcology 4 ай бұрын
You could probably leave out the mock strawberries and get the same taste from just the gravel.
@laurahunt1629 3 ай бұрын
@@Drosenv I don't hate anything, but I am being silly about the flavor of the mock berries. I don;t want to eat them, and I don't want to eat gravel, and I certainly don't want to blend them! Sorry for the confusion.
@minibuns6220 3 ай бұрын
My honey bees love native strawberries
@saddleridge4364 2 ай бұрын
I love wild violets. I eat them every spring and my dog even loves them. Throw some in your salad for color and appeal. Both the leaves and flowers are edible and packed with vitamin C and vitamin A.
@BackyardEcology 2 ай бұрын
Awesome! They are a very useful little plant!
@revnook 3 ай бұрын
When i was a little kid my dad called the imposter a wild strawberry. So, without his knowledge, i tasted one. Bitter is one way to describe it, if you want to be nice in your description.
@waynelacosse5241 3 ай бұрын
The mock strawberries in my backyard (eastern Nebraska) are vile, bitter, and totally nasty! I don't understand how anyone could put one in their mouths more than once in a lifetime. Gross to the max!
@zohan90210 3 ай бұрын
I HAVE BEEN SURROUNDED BY LIES!
@johnb-lz9mg 3 ай бұрын
Thanks for the very informative video. Our old place in southern VT had many strawberry plants and I have eaten only a few. The birds and animals always got them first. They are delicious and incredibly small. Compared to farm raised Berry's. Thanks again.
@BackyardEcology 3 ай бұрын
Thanks! It is always tough to beat the critters to the berries, although I don't mind it too much if they beat me to them.
@junchan_3200 3 ай бұрын
Mock strawberries are called snake berries in China which it is also native to, they were believed to be poisonous by some people which they were not, and they actually do have some medicinal properties and used in traditional Chinese herbal medicine, they have a mystical origin of growing from places that snake passed by and snakes love to lick the fruit (for some reason), of course they do taste like much only a slight sweetness.
@BackyardEcology 3 ай бұрын
Interesting! I wondered why they were known as snake berries. They are called that in some parts of the US as well.
@ferretyluv 3 ай бұрын
My backyard is covered with native violets.
@thumbelinasgrace 3 ай бұрын
Thank you! We are being overwhelmed with these imposters. Trying to get rid of them has been quite the challenge!
@BackyardEcology 3 ай бұрын
Mock strawberry can be tough to get a handle on!
@thesavvyblackbird 3 ай бұрын
My parents built a house on a lake in NC before I was born, and we had wild strawberries and violets. My parents didn’t let me eat the wild strawberries because they didn’t want me to be eating wild berries and poisoning myself. Our area had a lot of poke, and those poisonous berries do look juicy and delicious. We moved before I was old enough to be trusted to only eat the strawberries. My husband and I moved to Chicago for a while, and I found some tiny strawberries at a farmers market. They were a variety that was supposed to be very close to wild strawberries. The smell was amazing. I bought a flat thinking I’d make some jam (I’m allergic to apples and oranges so I can’t eat pectin and commercial jam). The strawberries were everything you could possibly want in a strawberry so my husband and I just ate them with heavy cream. No sugar needed. We moved back to NC for my husband’s job, and those small varieties don’t do well here. Reál brand strawberry syrup uses a small strawberry from California and is really good. Very fragrant. The syrups are used for cocktails, but I use it for lemonade.
@quigonkenny 3 ай бұрын
"Mom, I want strawberries!" "We have strawberries at home." Strawberries at home:
@taylorswf23 3 ай бұрын
I have two of these. I planted seven wild strawberries in a 10’x7’ space. In the last year they have almost entirely filled the space with runners!
@BackyardEcology 3 ай бұрын
NIce! They will fill in quickly.
@augustwest9727 2 ай бұрын
Beech strawberry with white flesh and red seeds looks amazing!
@MomCraftConnect 4 ай бұрын
This means that I have never had a wild strawberry 🍓 😂 Great video!
@BackyardEcology 4 ай бұрын
Most people haven't. The look a like mock strawberry is much more common in most places in the east.
@IAmHumanJake 3 ай бұрын
Got wild strawberry where I'm at.
@singagency1481 3 ай бұрын
Thank you for introducing me to potentilla indica or mock strawberry. I found this growing wild on the roadside in Cameron Highlands, Malaysia
@BackyardEcology 3 ай бұрын
You saw it in its native range! Cool!
@grutarg2938 3 ай бұрын
When I was a kid we called the mock strawberries "Waterberries" because they just taste like water. I have lots of both real & mock berries in my yard. Thanks for teaching me how to tell them apart before they flower.
@BackyardEcology 3 ай бұрын
Glad you found the video helpful!
@jonathanaffatato1715 2 ай бұрын
My advice: if you see mock strawberries and you don’t plan on eating them, get rid of them as soon as possible! Where I live on Long Island, they spread very quickly and are difficult to remove once established.
@SquirtlePurp 3 ай бұрын
Those mock strawberries popped up in my yard this spring, don’t remember seeing them previously. Thank you for clarifying they are invasive, I will definitely be removing them from the yard!
@BackyardEcology 3 ай бұрын
Glad you found the video useful! Hope you are successful in controlling the mock strawberries.
@Unpainted_Huffhines Ай бұрын
They're all over my back fence. Upon examination, they are Virginias. White flowers, round, pea sized, downward growing fruit. They're all over the neighborhood really, good to know they're actual strawberries.
@BackyardEcology Ай бұрын
Awesome!
@zygmuntc 3 ай бұрын
Good straight forward video. Thank you
@lynxlynx6685 3 ай бұрын
Thank you for making it clear what area of the world you were talking about.
@brassbuckles 3 ай бұрын
My mom always hated wild violets, but I've always loved them. The flowers are so pretty when they're in bloom, and when they aren't, their foliage is a deep glossy green even when it hasn't rained in a month. Never quite understood why people call them weeds.
@BackyardEcology 3 ай бұрын
Me either! They are beautiful and hardy little plants!
@JaneDoe-ng3zm 3 ай бұрын
I make violet jelly looks and taste like pink lemonade and violets and their early leaves can be added on a salad or decorate a cake with the violet flowers
@BackyardEcology 3 ай бұрын
@@JaneDoe-ng3zm They are a very useful plant - in so many ways!
@aliannarodriguez1581 2 ай бұрын
The leaves are great in salads, but it’s a lot of work making sure there are no slugs hiding in them.
@NaturalWorld253 2 ай бұрын
I love our wild strawberries 🍓 they are so delicious
@theJonnymac 2 ай бұрын
i love the way you present the side by side of how to tell things apart. I've lived my life around plants and my dad was a botanist, but I don't always remember the specifics of identifying very similar plants. you make it easy to remember!
@BackyardEcology 2 ай бұрын
Thank you! Glad you are enjoying the content!
@RumchugMusic 2 ай бұрын
I used to eat the mock strawberries as a kid and believed they were wild strawberries until I watched this video. The berries were a let down, but I enjoyed eating wild plants.
@GrandmaSandy 2 ай бұрын
Thanks so much for sharing the beautiful strawberries and so much right information about it. Hugs and kisses from grandma, Sandy, and Debbie.
@BackyardEcology 2 ай бұрын
Glad you enjoyed the video!
@montananerd8244 2 ай бұрын
Mmmmm alpine berries! We get them in July/august, absolutely incredible! I'm so glad I never see that naughty imposter!
@randyrstevens4403 2 ай бұрын
I pick as many mock strawberries as I can, put them in a little water, honey, brown sugar, and a touch of cayenne pepper. I love it. Beggers can't be choosers 😂
@eclipsedsonata 3 ай бұрын
Thanka to you, ive realized that what I thought was a crazy invasive weed is an actual strawberry, and not a mock strawberry. Grow my little babies! Grow!!
@BackyardEcology 3 ай бұрын
Awesome!
@bobbarker5884 3 ай бұрын
Excellent video! Thank you for the education!!!
@maths4297 2 ай бұрын
We have mock strawberries! I've had such a hard time identifying them because everyone I asked insisted they were wild strawberries. Thanks for finally giving me a positive id!
@BackyardEcology 2 ай бұрын
Awesome! Glad you found the video useful!
@LorainPsycho 3 ай бұрын
I don't mind Mock Strawberries, it's a little bit of food when I'm doing yardwork. I think the flesh has a little bit of flavor, but it might just be a placebo effect. I could eat them all day since they grow abundantly around me
@BackyardEcology 3 ай бұрын
No shortage of them here either, they seem to grow everywhere.
@doricetimko5403 3 ай бұрын
Yes for native groundcovers
@BackyardEcology 3 ай бұрын
More native ground cover content coming in the future!
@treashurehunter800 3 ай бұрын
I been eating "fake strawberries"and they are wet.and very subtle yet refreshing and clean like a flavored water. Yes! If one bottled the juice these yuppies would guzzle it by the gallon. Rinsed in cold water to chill is a refreshing moment munching them.and no lingering after taste. And you are ingesting a beneficial.
@artofescapism 3 ай бұрын
You learn something new every day, I suppose! I've been eating the mock strawberries for years- never had any problem with the taste, because I find the texture of the seeds pleasant. Guess I'll have to be more discerning from now on! Thank you for teaching me!
@BackyardEcology 3 ай бұрын
The mock berries are perfectly fine to eat, just no where near as good as an actual wild strawberry.
@haroldsfishingadventures754 Ай бұрын
When I lived in the country we had wild strawberries and they're small but 10x better than store bought
@erichowe1954 3 ай бұрын
Ground covers!!! Yes please
@BackyardEcology 3 ай бұрын
More ground covers coming in the future!
@CaptFoster5 2 ай бұрын
I do have a small area of mock strawberry in my backyard. I also have a regular strawberry patch from store berries I bought about 7 years ago. I allow the mock to remain, as I do pick some and add them to my strawberry jam that I make every year. Oh yeah, I'm in Northern Illinois
@ConstantGardener-q9q 3 ай бұрын
I use the native violets to crowd out the mock strawberries. They are really incredible!
@BackyardEcology 3 ай бұрын
Violets are one of the most underrated natives! Excellent in many applications!
@JAB671 3 ай бұрын
My mom always called those mock strawberries 'snake berries'. She and Dad told me they weren't, really strawberries. This video reminded me of what Mom called them so I looked up snakeberries and, sure enough, the article listed the same scientific name as one type of snake berry.
@BackyardEcology 3 ай бұрын
Snake berry is another common name for them is used more than mock strawberry in some places.
@mayb.wright509 Ай бұрын
Thanks for this. Very informative and fun!
@jeaniegobin1375 2 ай бұрын
I have strawberry plants all over my yard. They produce white flowers but never any fruit. I like them as a ground cover better than the invasive Bermuda grass. I watch every year for fruit not a 1. The deer eat the leaves but they grow back rapidly. Thank you sir.
@BackyardEcology 2 ай бұрын
Wild strawberries are diecious - there are male and female plants. Since they can reproduce vegetatively by sending out runners it is possible to have a large patch of them that are all the same sex. So you could have a yard full of male plants or a yard full of female plants with nothing to pollinate them.
@francestaylor9156 3 ай бұрын
Perfectly timed video. I saw some wild strawberry in my garden area while weeding. Looks like the mock strawberry. I’ll have to take it out.
@BackyardEcology 3 ай бұрын
Happy you found the video useful!
@melissaegbertson9100 3 ай бұрын
Thanks for this video, it is very helpful! I would love to hear more about native ground covers!
@BackyardEcology 3 ай бұрын
Glad you found the video useful! More native groundcover content coming in the future!
@msheart2 Ай бұрын
Thank you!
@royalsuperperson3652 Ай бұрын
I get those imposters in my yard a good bit. I've grown some strawberry plants myself and I know the birds have helped themselves, so I'm hoping some real wild strawberries start to take off around my property some time in the near future. Nothing like going through a stroll around the more wooded areas and finding a nice treat.
@BackyardEcology Ай бұрын
Always a nice surprise to find some wild strawberries!
@dirtyjerde13 3 ай бұрын
Wow I found this video because I saw a mock strawberry for the first time!
@BackyardEcology 3 ай бұрын
Nice!
@TheBarefootedGardener 3 ай бұрын
I love these little plants, I often times with my maintenance contracts will, along with some of the violas, weed out the other weedier plants and leave them to grow into a volunteer ground cover. Speaking of groundcovers, I would love to hear about more of them.
@BackyardEcology 3 ай бұрын
We tend to leave the violets too - great free, low effort groundcover! There will be more groundcover content coming in the future.
@noxtala8206 2 ай бұрын
Thank you I've been searching for ever, mock strawberry yes thanks that is what it is.
@BackyardEcology 2 ай бұрын
Glad the video was helpful!
@NotGoddess 4 ай бұрын
I have both fragaria virginiana & vesca growing as a groundcover -- they both seem to be okay with full sun, but I do have them in spots where I know they'll have access to moisture when needed. I've notice the vesca is much more prolific in forming runners. It also likes interweaving with violets. During spring the violets are smaller, letting them have plenty of sun, but as summer arrives with it's hot temps, the violets are larger, providing a dappled shade to the strawberry plants. I think they work well together.
@BackyardEcology 4 ай бұрын
Moisture is the key. Many plants that are found in the shade in nature can be planted in more sun if they enough moisture. Violets go great with many of the native groundcovers. We have a bed that we just planted in wild ginger and it has violets all though it.
@aliannarodriguez1581 2 ай бұрын
Now that I know the vesca can handle more shade I will have to acquire some. My virginiana has spread everywhere, but I’m just not getting much fruit off of them, especially in the shadier spots.
@NotGoddess 2 ай бұрын
@@aliannarodriguez1581 I wouldn't say I get a lot of strawberries off the vesca so far, but I also haven't been looking too hard since I'm growing them as a groundcover. I have gotten more than the virginiana but I've thought it's because the wildlife has been grabbing them soon as they are ripe.
@TheTardis157 3 ай бұрын
I grow alpine strawberries which are extremely similar to these wild varieties. The practically look the same and grow like weeds too! They are shockingly drought tolerant and can put up with a fair bit of neglect before they die off fully. I've had many plants die back to ground level but come right back when watered like a bare rood. They spread slowly because they don't have runners which is good for keeping them from taking over the garden!
@BackyardEcology 3 ай бұрын
The garden varieties of alpine strawberry are F. vesca that has been selected for not propagating by runners. They tend to produce a slightly larger fruit than true wild strawberries. There are actually some named varieties of alpine strawberries that DO produce runners, so it is a good idea to read the description to make sure it is in fact a runnerless variety!
@dannyrulezd00d Ай бұрын
The quality of the content is unmatched. Truly one of a kind.
@BackyardEcology Ай бұрын
Thank you!
@erinhellebuyck7527 3 ай бұрын
Thank you
@kfitz192 2 ай бұрын
After I moved here I found so many strawberry plants in my backyard and was so excited! Turns out they're Mock Strawberries! The green leaves can be used as an edible pot herb or dried to make a wonderful tea. The berries were often used in pioneer days to fill in if there weren't enough real strawberries for jam. The plant has a ton of medicinal value. They also make a great ground cover. When they start to take over just rip them out and eat. They're drought resistant and do well in full sun or shade.
@BackyardEcology 2 ай бұрын
The thing is, mock strawberries offer next to nothing for our native pollinators and most wildlife don't touch them. There are hundreds of native plants that are great for our pollinators and wildlife many of which are also edible and can be made into tea. I would much rather have those and remove mock strawberries.
@ichoppabroccoli3670 3 ай бұрын
I feel like strawberry expert now! Great video! I love the bee shirt too!🙂👍
@BackyardEcology 3 ай бұрын
Awesome! Thank you!
@gaetanbulger6533 3 ай бұрын
When we bought our home it was fall but by the next summer we noticed a nice patch of strawberry just one step from our back porch been picking them since
@BackyardEcology 3 ай бұрын
Nice!
@alexismyers6053 3 ай бұрын
Watching with my Steve the Strawberry from Edible. Might go out and pull the couple of mock strawberries I know are in the yard later.
@bradcogley8146 2 ай бұрын
Amazing how I basically never ever see vids like this in my feed and today I was telling my gf how I found these odd looking strawberries in the yard and magically this video arrives within 24 hours. I love being stalked
@MrScaryPasta 3 ай бұрын
There’s a strawberry plant here in my state of California called Irish Strawberry. It was brought here by Irish settlers during colonial times and has spread throughout the entire West Coast. Believe it or not, this strawberry is edible and thrives in most environments. I’ve eaten them and OMG delicious. 🤤
@_Chessa_ 2 ай бұрын
More native ground covers. 😊
@lisacapuletco 2 ай бұрын
So I have a pet deer, who is also wild and free, but never strays far from my property. Just last week I picked a handful of what I now know was Mock Strawberries. I held out my hand for her to eat them too but she just sniffed them and then looked at me like I was nuts for offering her inferior berries. So now I know. Thank you!
@BackyardEcology 2 ай бұрын
This has been my observation too. Deer walk through an area I can see well and note what they are browsing on. They eat all sorts of plants, but I have never seen them actually select a mock strawberry.
@nutrinutbob 3 ай бұрын
Duchesnea indica, totally tasteless berries, but a medicinal plant that grows in abundance in my yard here in SE Ohio.
@foxliasgriffinYT 3 ай бұрын
i get these in my backyard every year, cen recognise em without question
@a3skywarrior929 3 ай бұрын
I'm just here for your shirt 👕! A five year hobby beekeeper; always explaining (since 7 lol) what is a bee 🐝 or not. 🫡
@BackyardEcology 3 ай бұрын
Thanks! It is my favorite shirt!
@danielmalinen6337 3 ай бұрын
Although many sources say that strawberries originated in America, strawberries are also native to Europe and were already known to the ancient Romans who believed that strawberry had great medicinal value. The most common wild strawberry in the Nordic countries and Europe is Fragaria vesca.
@BackyardEcology 3 ай бұрын
The origin of the garden strawberry is in the New World - both species used in the cross to create it were from North and South America. Wild strawberries are found on several continents and have been eaten and used for thousands of years.
@454Burban 3 ай бұрын
I grew up in Southern Commiefornia, and we had those Mock Strawberries along the entire northern side of our house. I suppose they needed the shade. We occasionally ate them as kids - if the snails didn't get them first - and far as I know, there weren't any regative namifications.
@sirlaugholot 3 ай бұрын
Thank you very much. Clear concise and on point. And factual about native and invasive handling. You don't find that hardly ever. Most people don't know what the heck they're talking about or even why. Show a big shout out and thank you
@BackyardEcology 3 ай бұрын
Thank you! Glad you liked the video!
@peterbernhardt5169 4 ай бұрын
The introduction of the form of F. chiloensis, first domesticated by the Incas for the biggest fruits, is more complicated. It was NOT difficult to grow in Europe but people thought their flavor was "meh" compared to their own F, vesca. More important only half of the plants in a patch of F. chiloensis ever set fruit. Why? Each plant is either a boy (pollen only) or a girl (pistils only), like marijuana. So are most (not all) native American populations of F. virginiana. By hybridizing the two species the gene(s) controlling sexual expression were neutralized producing plants with bisexual flowers, so we now have productive cultivars producing larger tastier fruit. The hybrid's name, ananassa, refers to its initial resemblance to pineapple fruit (ananas), also originally from South America but not of the Incas. Out in Oregon, solitary bees that pollinate native wild strawberries also pollinate the beautiful mountain lady slipper (Cypripedium montanum) when they flower together.
@BackyardEcology 4 ай бұрын
Great synopsis of the way strawberry pollination and domestication works! I have seen both that they thought the flavor was boring to it was not as easy to cultivate as F. virginiana. I've seen the large fruited white garden strawberries sold as "pineapple berries" even though, like you said, that is not what they are.
@mesekkai 3 ай бұрын
I live in the peedee area of south Carolina and i love eating wild strawberrys at my old house when i was a young child. I also remember alot ALOT ALOT of wild blackberries growing all throw out the area. We eat them every summer.
@BackyardEcology 3 ай бұрын
Nice! If the blackberry bloom we had this spring converts to berries well it is going to be a bumper crop!
@justebel1 2 ай бұрын
Thanks
@S5S5066 2 ай бұрын
I’d love native ground cover
@VB-bk1lh 2 ай бұрын
Over the past 10 years or so the shady parts of my yard have been overrun with what I was told were 'Indian Berries' they look similar to what is shown here as mock strawberries but the berries have taller seed projections that break off easily when handled. Nothing seems to eat them and they stick around most of the spring and sometimes well into summer. The leaves are not fuzzy, and look super close to farm strawberries but they are not so much a vine. They also seem to over run and smother out the native violet plants that have always been so prolific here. The flowers are white to off white with a bit of yellow in the center but flowers seem to be what gets eaten by ground hogs when they manage to find a patch of it. Its currently growing along one side of my driveway and along the north side of the house, nearly making up 100% of the ground cover that used to be grass. Mowing it seems to make it even more prolific.
@BackyardEcology 2 ай бұрын
I am not sure what those are. There has been another comment with a similar plant description but I was never able to track down what it might be. Could be another species of Potentilla. I will continue to research it.
@jacoblanning 3 ай бұрын
first time seeing this channel and i didn’t know how much i was into the history and the identification of wild fruit and fruit in general until now this stuff is very interesting and good to know but if we don’t start doing better and trying to save the bees we can pretty much kiss fruit and flowers goodbye as far as i know
@jackt7233 3 ай бұрын
I had no idea about these native and invasive species! I had mock strawberries growing in my backyard as a kid and always wondered why they never tasted that good. I'd love to try growing some virginia strawberries one year ^_^
@BackyardEcology 3 ай бұрын
The native strawberries are great! You will not regret planting some.
@Bsquaredplus2 3 ай бұрын
Wild strawberries are DELICIOUS!!
@BackyardEcology 3 ай бұрын
Yes they are!
@napalmholocaust9093 Ай бұрын
The first Europeans were happy to find something they recognized. 30 some species total from all over the world.
@BackyardEcology Ай бұрын
Yep. A very widely distributed genus of plants!
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