StrawBerry Plant?? Sure looks like it...

[BrianSkilton]

Hey guys I found this strawberry plant (or thats what I thought it was) growing in some of my landscaping rock. It looks different then my everbearing and june-bearing plants. It wasn't growing in too much dirt so I pulled it out and put it in a hanging basket for now. To me it looks like a wild strawberry plant but I'm not 100% sure. How it got there, I have no idea, maybe from a disgarded strawberry?...or a bird passed a seed...

[img]https://www.phantom360.com/images/garden/wildstraw1.JPG[/img]
[img]https://www.phantom360.com/images/garden/wildstraw2.JPG[/img]
[img]https://www.phantom360.com/images/garden/wildstraw3.JPG[/img]
[img]https://www.phantom360.com/images/garden/wildstraw4.JPG[/img]

[kylie77]

I'm definately no expert, but I'd say it's a strawberry plant. It looks a lot like the ones we bought recently anyway. What a great find!

[rainbowgardener]

It's some kind of strawberry plant. I can't really tell size of leaves. If the leaves look like strawberry leaves, but considerably smaller (no more than half the size), it's a wild strawberry. Wild strawberries have tiny little berries that are not sweet...

[applestar]

It might be some kind of Potentilla -- in the first photo, there are a couple of stems that seem to have short partial leaf-like structures growing out of them. Also in the first and last photo, the leaf stems don't look sturdy enough to be strawberry, though in the other photos, they do look more strawberry-like.

[BrianSkilton]

hmm, yeah applestar I was thinking that too. To me it looks like it could be https://www.aphotofungi.com/Potentilla%20sterilis23-02-05.jpg
but then when I look at this https://www.plantcare.com/oldSite/httpdocs/images/namedImages/Potentilla_sterilis.jpg it doesn't look like that at all, the leaves are more at a peak.

[The Helpful Gardener]

The Potentilla guess is a good one I think...

There are a lot of weeds out there that mimic strawberry...

[url]https://www.mobot.org/gardeninghelp/plantfinder/Plant.asp?Code=T910[/url]

HG

[BrianSkilton]

Thanks guys, maybe I will see what happens, but it probably isn't a strawberry plant, one can dream....