Wild Strawberry [Fragaria virginiana]

from $4.00

HEIGHT: 1'

BLOOM TIME: Apr-Jun

SOIL MOISTURE: medium-dry to medium

SUN EXPOSURE: full, partial

NOTES: Tiny but delicious fruit (if you van beat the critters to them). Not to be confused with the bitter Mock Strawberry commonly found in lawns (yellow flower). Host to 53 species of Lepidoptera. Pretty fall foliage. Great ground cover for slopes and woodland gardens. Spreads by stolons. Perfect for filling in gaps in a variety of native landscapes and for replacing invasive Vinca Minor.

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HEIGHT: 1'

BLOOM TIME: Apr-Jun

SOIL MOISTURE: medium-dry to medium

SUN EXPOSURE: full, partial

NOTES: Tiny but delicious fruit (if you van beat the critters to them). Not to be confused with the bitter Mock Strawberry commonly found in lawns (yellow flower). Host to 53 species of Lepidoptera. Pretty fall foliage. Great ground cover for slopes and woodland gardens. Spreads by stolons. Perfect for filling in gaps in a variety of native landscapes and for replacing invasive Vinca Minor.

“The plant has in fact been up all night assembling little packets of sugar and seeds and fragrance and color, because when it does so its evolutionary fitness is increased. When it is successful in enticing an animal such as me to disperse its fruit, its genes for making yumminess are passed on to ensuing generations with a higher frequency than those of the plant whose berries were inferior. The berries made by the plant shape the behaviors of the dispersers and have adaptive consequences.

What I mean of course is that our human relationship with strawberries is transformed by our choice of perspective. It is human perception that makes the world a gift. When we view the world this way, strawberries and humans alike are transformed. The relationship of gratitude and reciprocity thus developed can increase the evolutionary fitness of both plant and animal.”
— Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants