Irish wildflowers sitemap
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Wild Strawberry White flowers, usually 5-petalled. Petals often over-lapping. Small edible red berries.Long-stalked bright green trifoliate leaves. Mainly basal. Leaflets oval, strongly toothed, flattened silky hairs beneath. Long slender runners, forming new plants at nodes. Height:5-30 cm. Very frequent. Woods, scrub, grassland, roadsides. Similar: Barren Strawberry, Potentilla sterilis. Earlier flowering. Dull-green leaves, petals with visible sepals. Sterile fruit that does not ripen to red. 
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Wild Strawberry. April 2008