Can you eat those random wild strawberries that show up in people's yards?

[Anonymous]

Those are mostly often false strawberries or snake berries
edible but taste terrible

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Those are mostly often false strawberries or snake berries
edible but taste terrible

Is this what you're talking about OP?
As PP said, potentilla indica

[Anonymous]

Those are mock strawberries and dont taste good.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We pick wild raspberries when during our summers in Michigan, but have had zero luck finding similarly tasty, sweet berries growing wild here in the DMV. I don't think our temperatures are ideal for berries.

Oh, they're everywhere, but you have to go to where they are. Look by railroad tracks (stay well away from the tracks and be sure you can move away from area for oncoming trains), edge of overgrown woods. If you're really determined you can drive a bit out of the area. We have wineberries (brought over by European settlers, very similar to raspberries), wild blackberries, and even wild blueberries. C&O Canal just outside of Georgetown used to have lots of wild berry bushes.

[Anonymous]

Yes but not worth the hassle. Taste like earth.

[Anonymous]

They taste bad.

[Anonymous]

I taste them every year. We have one sunny patch where they are sweet but the rest of the year they're bland or dirt tasting.

[Anonymous]

I don’t eat from anyones yard!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t know the answer here in the US, but just as a side note I’m from Russia and there we have these “wild strawberries” that are small, like a pinky nail, and they are by far the most delicious berries ever. Very sweet and far more fragrant than strawberries. Some people try to garden them there, but they’re truly best grown in the wild. (We would go into the woods for berry picking).

Absolute yes to this: I grew up in northern Minnesota where wild strawberries are also abundant (and raspberries and blueberries). Very intense flavor. When I was a kid there in a small town, we never saw strawberries in the grocery stores so my only encounter with domesticated strawberries was on visits to an aunt and uncle who grew them in their garden on their farm. Not as huge as today's varieties but I remember being amazed. I think the gigantic strawberries now are often bland. The ones we'd pick were about the size of a decent sized supermarket blueberry now. The other wild berries were also smaller than their store counterparts. My mom would make jams and raspberry sauce (basically just canned raspberries) and blueberry pie. Amazing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Those are mostly often false strawberries or snake berries
edible but taste terrible

Is this what you're talking about OP?
As PP said, potentilla indica

Interesting after looking up. They are non-native, brought from Asia as a ground cover plant apparently, and the fruit is considered "dry and tasteless".
True strawberries have white flowers, these have yellow.