Virginia strawberry: A Beautiful, Tasty, and Underutilized Native Groundcover
Backyard Ecology™29 Touko 2025

Virginia strawberry: A Beautiful, Tasty, and Underutilized Native Groundcover

Summary

The Virginia strawberry (Fragaria virginiana) is our most widespread native wild strawberry in the eastern U.S. It supports a wide range of pollinators and wildlife. It can also make an amazing groundcover in a native plant garden. However, this is not the wild strawberry that most people find growing in their yards and garden beds.

3 things you'll learn from this episode

  • How to tell the Virginia strawberry from the other native wild strawberry in the eastern U.S. and from the invasive mock strawberry that is found in many people's yards and gardens.
  • How to incorporate the Virginia strawberry into your garden or yard.
  • The pollinators and wildlife that use Virginia strawberry.

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