They grow in our backyard under a bush beside a west facing fence. Since they don't get much sun they only ever get as big as you see there in the picture with few small berries that rarely all ripen. This year I plan to change that see how they do in full sun.Thanks!

That should help. I grow alpine strawberries and they make more/larger fruit in sunnier spots. Still tiny but more flavor than common strawberry.

Just in case anyone is not aware, tiny wild strawberries grew in Europe long before the big strawberries that we know today, which are hybrids of a strawberry species from Peru.

We did the same experiment. Dug up wild strawberries from our yard, moved them into really rich garden soil. They absolutely thrived, huge leaves, tons of runners and lots of flowers. Not a single flower became fruit, they all aborted for some reason. It was a lot of work to remove all the strawberries since they had taken over the entire 6' x 20' bed.

Daren

that's quite the area!

I am constantly battling the native wild ones in my strawberry bed. They are vigorously invasive (in the sense of I don't want them there) -- in bloom the yellow flowers help to identify the plants, as well as the darker and generally smaller leaves. They do fruit, the fruit is pretty, bright red, but pretty much without flavor.

The ones you have bloom yellow?never seen those ones! these are white, I figured the fruit was small beyond what they're supposed to be due to the poor growing conditions. We'll see if this is any better.

update feb 23 filling in nicely

I have a wild strawberry that I have had for about 20+ years. It started out wild in Idaho, put it in a pot and moved to New Mexico for three years. Then I moved it to southern California where it died or so I thought. Dumped the dirt from the pot in the grass and the following year up she popped. I replanted it back in the pot and swore I would never give it fish emulsion again. Well here we are in Arizona where it died, again, in the move in the pot or so I thought. First I planted it in a flower bed but the rolly pollies loved it too much, so now it is back in a pot. I think the plant I have now is the great great grand daughter of the original plant.

The wild types usually have a much more intense flavor than the cultivated large strawberries, so are still a treat even if they are tiny.

Any 'wild strawberries' with yellow flowers aren't true strawberries. They're a related species, Duchesnea indica.

Thanks floral_uk, that is what I have! the fruit is round (and tasteless), with the yellow flower, otherwise they are so similar to my real strawberries.

March 15 doing well

Looks good, keep us posted. I collected a few plants last year and have them potted now. Hopefully they won't turn out to be mock strawberry.

March 21

update: They are starting to flower! thanks for looking.