Post a reply

Image
May 17, 2018 7:07 PM CST
Thread OP
Name: Dnd
SE Michigan (Zone 6a)
Daylilies Dog Lover Houseplants Organic Gardener I helped beta test the first seed swap Celebrating Gardening: 2015
Garden Ideas: Level 2
This is growing across a patch of grass in my backyard and it looked a lot like strawberry plants, but the spread of them isn't viney like the strawberry plants I have cultivated in the past. If it is an imposter...a strawberry look-alike, what is it?


Thumb of 2018-05-18/DogsNDaylilies/22b3d5


Thumb of 2018-05-18/DogsNDaylilies/1cf531
Image
May 18, 2018 12:26 AM CST
Name: Tofi
Sumatera, Indonesia
Vegetable Grower Peppers Butterflies Garden Procrastinator Roses Bookworm
Tomato Heads Tropicals Salvias Plays in the sandbox Frogs and Toads Fruit Growers
A Fragaria, i'm sure, but for the species I know nothing, perhaps some wild strawberry like F. virginiana or other
Image
May 18, 2018 5:08 AM CST
Thread OP
Name: Dnd
SE Michigan (Zone 6a)
Daylilies Dog Lover Houseplants Organic Gardener I helped beta test the first seed swap Celebrating Gardening: 2015
Garden Ideas: Level 2
Is there such thing as a cinquefoil that has white flowers? Although this plant doesn't seem to be growing tall, like cinquefoil. It's just that these plants seem like they should be weeds and they don't have the vining characteristic that strawberries do, so it's hard to believe that they are actually strawberries.
Image
May 18, 2018 7:14 PM CST
Name: Tofi
Sumatera, Indonesia
Vegetable Grower Peppers Butterflies Garden Procrastinator Roses Bookworm
Tomato Heads Tropicals Salvias Plays in the sandbox Frogs and Toads Fruit Growers
If that's the case, perhaps we are dealing with Potentilla sterilis, the tip of the leaflets has shorter tooth at the mid-end consistent with P sterilis. its just the center bit yellow that made me think of Fragaria.

In the past I grew 'golden alexandria' and 'white delight' strawberry, they are great in tropics and never produce stolon, this made me think perhaps not all strawberry wanders. (although the species might always...?)

But, if it is strawberry, you should have seen fruit in the past,... so indeed, may be it is potentilla
Image
May 19, 2018 4:56 AM CST
Thread OP
Name: Dnd
SE Michigan (Zone 6a)
Daylilies Dog Lover Houseplants Organic Gardener I helped beta test the first seed swap Celebrating Gardening: 2015
Garden Ideas: Level 2
tofitropic said:
But, if it is strawberry, you should have seen fruit in the past,... so indeed, may be it is potentilla


I may just have to wait and see! This is our first spring in this house, so I'm continually surprised by flowers popping up here and there.
Only the members of the Members group may reply to this thread.
Member Login:

( No account? Join now! )

Today's site banner is by rocklady and is called "Loropetalum"

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.