It kind of looks like a strawberry.... ???

[wifezilla]

I have something growing in one of my pots. I don't think I planted it. Like the title says, it kind of looks like a strawberry. Well the leaves do, but they are thinner. Clusters of 3. Jagged edges. The stems are fuzzy. I saw a flower on it a few days ago and it was yellow, but now it is gone.

It does kind of look like some pictures I have seen of cinquefoils, but don't those leaves grow in clusters of 5?

I will post a photo once I find my cell phone. Any clues?

 

[vfem]

Maybe?

http://factoidz.com/wild-indian-strawberry-or-mock-strawberry-plant/

 

[kcsunshine]

Those things run rampant through my flower beds. We call them wild strawberries and always heard they were poisonous. Guess not!

 

[wifezilla]

It's close but not sure that is it. The stems are very rigid.

 

[journey11]

Yeah, they're wild. We always called them snake berries, but I don't know if that's their real name or just something my mom made up to keep us kids from eating them! The birds probably deposited it there...

 

[hoodat]

I haven't eaten one since I was a kid but as I reacall they are sort of mealy and tasteless. Kind of disapointing when they look so appetizing.

 

[wifezilla]

Here it is. Sorry for the cruddy cell phone pics. In the second pic you can see the "real" strawberries on the left.

 

[cwhit590]

yeah...like you wifezilla, I'm thinking it's a type of cinquefoil. We have weeds similar to that around here...don't really know a whole lot about them or the different species though...

I don't think it's the Indian (or Mock) strawberry...those grow down south and they're low-growing....

 

[elf]

Those things run rampant through my flower beds. We call them wild strawberries and always heard they were poisonous. Guess not!

I always heard that too. I've put them in my mouth and they are tasteless.

 

[elf]

http://img10.imageshack.us/img10/3388/img00031kg.jpg
http://img64.imageshack.us/img64/8291/img00030t.jpg

Here it is. Sorry for the cruddy cell phone pics. In the second pic you can see the "real" strawberries on the left.

AHA! Another example of my theory that weeds are attracted to and show up next to plants that look like them.