Wild strawberries are invading my planted ones

[Bird1961]

My domestic strawberries were accompanied be wild strawberries last summer. I was a bit lazy about getting rid of them, partly because I don't know which is which until I see the little fruits. Is there another way to tell which are the wild? Should I be pulling them out anyway?
Is this a good time (February in MD) to do so?

[DoubleDogFarm]

Can you post some pictures. I'm curious where the wild strawberries came from. You sure they are not runners from the parent plants.

Eric

[rainbowgardener]

In my experience, the wild strawberries have considerably smaller leaves as well as smaller fruit, than the hybrid domestic ones, making them easy to spot. Any time the ground is unfrozen and workable is an ok time to pull weeds.

[Bird1961]

I suspect that bunch of small leaved plants are the wild..

[DoubleDogFarm]

They appear to be weeds not strawberries. Maybe Purple Dead nettle.

Eric

[Bird1961]

Here's a new picture of the strawberry patch now.
Are those smaller leaves wild strawberries? If not, should I thin these out? They seem crowded in some areas and they won't spread to open areas. Can I train them into open areas?

[Bird1961]

I decided that the smaller, more serrated leaves were wild strawberries. I pulled them all out and this is what my patch looks like now. There were lots of closely growing and intertwined plants but I just followed the leaves down to the main root and pulled out whole bunches of "wild" looking strawberry plants.
I think I done right.

[!potatoes!]

I think so too.