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Mississippi
Wild Strawberry in flower
Henrik Kibak · CC BY 4.0 · source

Wild Strawberry

Fragaria virginiana

It grows wild in 11 of Mississippi’s 82 counties.

Light
Part shade to full sun
Soil
Dry to moist soil
Size
6 in to 9 in tall, 1.5 ft wide
Flowers
White
Leaves
Semi-evergreen
Roots
Spreading rhizomes or runners
Kind
Wildflower
Add to a bedPlan it in a pot

At its grown size

Wild Strawberry, drawn in a bed

in flower

What it feeds

Caterpillars
49 kinds of caterpillars
Bees
7 kinds of native bees
Birds
14 kinds of birds
On its flowers
Sweat bee (Halictus confusus), Mining bee (Andrena melanochroa), Mason bee (Osmia pumila), Sweat bee (Lasioglossum vierecki)

Grows well with

Robin's-plantain1.5 ft tallBird's-foot Violet6 in tallNarrowleaf Sundrops1.4 ft tallNew Jersey Tea2.5 ft tallBluestem Goldenrod2.5 ft tallWild Geranium1.3 ft tallCalico Aster3 ft tallSmall's Ragwort2.3 ft tall

Facts from the Quercus record for Fragaria virginiana.