wild strawberry

wild strawberry (plural wild strawberries)

1. A plant of the species of strawberry growing naturally throughout much of the Northern Hemisphere, Fragaria vesca.
2. A berry of such a plant.

• wood strawberry, woodland strawberry, Alpine strawberry, European strawberry

• mock strawberry (Potentilla indica, Duchesnia indica in older references), a groundcover that resembles wild strawberries.