Indian Mock-Strawberry

(Duchesnea indica)

Characteristics

Leaves	Flowers	Fruit

Growing habit: Prostrate low-trailing perennial

Root/stem anatomy: Fibrous roots from taproot, crowns and creeping stolons

Leaves: Alternately arranged, trifoliate, elliptic to ovate, leaflet margins crenate

Reproduction: Flowers 5-petaled, yellow; fruit red, strawberry-like

^{References: Weeds of the South by Charles T. Bryson and Michael S. DeFelice}