Mock Strawberry (Potentilla indica)

General Plant Information (Edit)
Life cycle:	Perennial
Sun Requirements:	Full Sun Full Sun to Partial Shade
Water Preferences:	Mesic
Minimum cold hardiness:	Zone 5a -28.9 °C (-20 °F) to -26.1 °C (-15 °F)
Maximum recommended zone:	Zone 9b
Plant Height:	5-10 cm
Plant Spread:	80 cm
Leaves:	Unusual foliage color
Fruit:	Showy
Flowers:	Showy
Flower Color:	Yellow
Flower Time:	Late spring or early summer Summer Late summer or early fall
Suitable Locations:	Xeriscapic
Uses:	Groundcover Vegetable Will Naturalize Suitable as Annual
Dynamic Accumulator:	Fe (Iron)
Propagation: Seeds:	Provide light Self fertile Needs specific temperature: sow at max. 15°C Days to germinate: germination is erratic and can take up to 8 weeks Suitable for wintersowing Sow in situ Start indoors Can handle transplanting
Pollinators:	Various insects

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Comments:

Posted by RuuddeBlock (The Netherlands) on Jun 9, 2017 12:44 PM concerning plant:

Take care, aggressive invasive species in many places,

Ruud

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Posted by yurikashtanov (St.Petersburg, or Sochi, or North Smolensk reg., Russia; Los Frailes, Ecuador - Zone 10a) on Jan 16, 2013 3:24 PM concerning plant:

It's a native plant in the area the pic was taken.

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Posted by gardengus (Indiana Zone 5b) on Apr 30, 2019 1:20 PM concerning plant:

Very aggressive grower here in my Indiana garden.
I threw some dirt containing a single plant behind my garden shed 3 years ago. it has covered a 3X8 space almost entirely, surviving among some other weeds and no care.
...so beware
...also I have tasted the fruit(not pleasant)

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