The leaves of wild strawberry are similar to cultivated strawberries. The leaves are trifoliolate on long hairy petioles. The leaves have toothed margins. The flowers which are produced from April to June are white with yellow stamens and pistils, and contain five petals. The fruit is a red strawberry with many small seeds in pits on the surface.
Wild strawberries reproduce from seed and from runners.
Each plant forms multiple runners which root at the nodes and form new plants. Wild strawberries are found throughout most of the United States and Canada. Because wild strawberry reproduces from runners, it is difficult to physically remove plants from turf situations. Although single plants are not difficult to pull or hoe from loose soil, runners may link into multiple plants several feet distant. If physical removal is attempted, take extreme care to remove all plants and plant parts.