Plants : RosaceaeFerns and Flowering Plants

Potentilla sterilis (L.) Garcke

Barren Strawberry

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Potentilla sterilis

Description: Looking like a wild strawberry plant but with greyer leaves and not producing any juicy fruit. Common on dry banks, cliffs etc.

All names: Potentilla sterilis (L.) Garcke; Potentilla fragariastrum Pers.

Distribution Map from NBN: Potentilla sterilis at National Biodiversity Network mapping facility, data for UK.

iNaturalist: Potentilla sterilis at iNaturalist World Species Observations database.

 Hackney, P., 2026. Potentilla sterilis. (L.) Garcke. [In] Flora of Northern Ireland.
https://habitas.org/flora/species.php?item=3339. Accessed on 2026-11-02.