Mock strawberry - wikipedia Mock strawberry Not to be confused with Barren strawberry. Mock strawberry Scientific classification Kingdom : Plantae ( unranked ) : Angiosperms ( unranked ) : Eudicots ( unranked ) : Rosids Order : Rosales Family : Rosaceae Subfamily : Rosoideae Genus : Duchesnea Species : D. indica Binomial name Duchesnea indica ( Andrews ) Th. Wolf Duchesnea indica ( sometimes called Potentilla indica ), known commonly by the names mock strawberry, Indian strawberry, or false strawberry, is a flowering plant in the family Rosaceae. It has foliage and an aggregate accessory fruit similar to that of a true strawberry. It has yellow flowers, unlike the white or slightly pink flowers of true strawberries. It is native to eastern and southern Asia, but has been introduced to many other areas as a medicinal and an ornamental plant. It has been naturalized in many regions, including parts of the United States. The leaves are trifoliate, roughly veined beneath, dark green, and often persisting through the winter, arising from short crowns. The plant spreads along creeping stolons, rooting and producing crowns at each node. The yellow flowers are produced in mid spring, then sporadically throughout the growing season. The aggregate accessory fruits are white or red, and entirely covered with red achenes, simple ovaries, each containing a single seed. They are edible, but they have little overall flavor. Recent genetic evidence has shown that this genus is better included within Potentilla, but currently most sources still list it in the genus Duchesnea. A poultice of the crushed leaves is used to treat skin ailments such as eczema. Images Duchesnea indica - MHNT Immature fruit Blossom References ^ Jump up to : O'Brien, Meghan ( December 2006 ). `` Indian Strawberry ''. Bellarmine University. Retrieved 2017 - 06 - 13. Jump up ^ `` Invasive species in Belgium : Duchesnea indica ''. Retrieved 22 November 2013. Jump up ^ Missouri department of Conservation. `` Indian Strawberry ( Mock Strawberry ) ''. Retrieved 22 November 2013. This plant is invasive in many locations across America. Jump up ^ `` Potentilla indica ''. County - level distribution map from the North American Plant Atlas ( NAPA ). Biota of North America Program ( BONAP ). 2014. Jump up ^ `` Are the mock strawberries toxic ? ''. FDA Poisonous Plant Database. 1986. Retrieved 2017 - 05 - 23. Jump up ^ Torsten Eriksson ; Malin S. Hibbs ; Anne D. Yoder ; Charles F. Delwiche & Michael J. Donoghue ( 2003 ). `` The Phylogeny of Rosoideae ( Rosaceae ) Based on Sequences of the Internal Transcribed Spacers ( ITS ) of Nuclear Ribosomal DNA and the trnL / F Region of Chloroplast DNA ''. Int. J. Plant Sci. 164 ( 2 ) : 197 -- 211. doi : 10.1086 / 346163. Jump up ^ `` The Plant List : Duchesnea ''. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and Missouri Botanic Garden. 2013. Retrieved 20 July 2016. External links Wikimedia Commons has media related to Duchesnea indica. University of Missouri : Division of Plant Sciences Wildflowers of Louisiana Jepson Manual Treatment Taxon identifiers Potentilla indica Wikidata : Q162878 Wikispecies : Potentilla indica BioLib : 39853 EoL : 229671 GBIF : 5365717 GRIN : 29500 iNaturalist : 243824 IPNI : 728289 - 1 NBN : NHMSYS0021126306 NCBI : 13044 NZOR : 8c436269 - abe9 - 4eba - ae57 - 8109a0f69c28 POWO : urn : lsid : ipni.org : names : 728289 - 1 Tropicos : 27805421 VASCAN : 20038 VicFlora : ce47bb91 - 1823 - 45f1 - 9847 - a98cdf6b80fc Duchesnea indica Wikidata : Q24192276 APDB : 84216 BioLib : 39853 Calflora : 2826 EPPO : DUCIN FNA : 200010823 FoC : 200010823 GRIN : 14736 ITIS : 25163 NZOR : f6e7e47f - 04ac - 43d6 - 8ea6 - a12d2a3c3e71 PalDat : Duchesnea_indica Plant List : rjp - 804 PLANTS : DUIN Tropicos : 27800853 Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mock_strawberry&oldid=864195683 '' Categories : Potentilla Flora of temperate Asia Flora of tropical Asia Invasive plant species Hidden categories : Articles with ' species ' microformats Taxonbars using multiple manual Wikidata items Talk About Wikipedia Asturianu Azərbaycanca تۆرکجه Cebuano Čeština Cymraeg Deutsch Español Esperanto Français 한국어 Hornjoserbsce Italiano ქართული Magyar Nederlands नेपाली 日本 語 Polski Русский Svenska Українська Tiếng Việt Winaray 中文 16 more Edit links This page was last edited on 15 October 2018, at 18 : 25 ( UTC ). About Wikipedia

Question: what color are the flowers on a strawberry plant
Answer: white or slightly pink