Wild Strawberry
Fragaria virginiana
It grows wild in 62 of Kentucky’s 120 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
At its grown size
in flower
What it feeds
- Caterpillars
- 71 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
Bird's-foot Violet
Robin's-plantain
New Jersey Tea
Bluestem Goldenrod
Narrowleaf Sundrops
Calico Aster
Wild Geranium
Black HuckleberryFacts from the Quercus record for Fragaria virginiana.