woodland strawberry
Fragaria vesca
RHS Plants for Pollinators
- Habit
- Herb
- Bloom season
- Spring, summer
- Bloom color
- White with yellow center
- Foliage color
- Yellow-green.
- Soil types
- Sand, loam, clay
- Soil pH
- Acid, alkaline, neutral
Garden uses
Attracts
Notes
Woodland strawberry (Fragaria vesca) is a fruit for food gardens, ground cover, containers, and woodland edges. It is hardy to USDA zone 5, or down to -20°F (-29°C). This plant likes full sun to full shade and average to wet, sandy, loamy, or clay soil. Deer usually look elsewhere for a meal. White flowers with yellow centers open in spring and again in summer, and bees visit them. The seed-like fruit sits on the surface, and the sepals point backwards.
Pairs well with Bowman's root, Black raspberry, and Berggarten sage.
Native range
North America, Central America, Europe, Middle East, and 18 more places. See all 22
North America, Central America, Europe, Middle East, Central Asia, Altay, Azores, Buryatiya, Corse, Irkutsk, Kirgizstan, Krasnoyarsk, Krym, Madeira, NW. Balkan Pen., New Hampshire, Québec, Sardegna, Sicilia, Tuva, Türkiye, and Xinjiang.