Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

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Potentilla indica

Common name

Indian strawberry

Family

Rosaceae

Where found

Disturbed forest, roadsides, and moist sites. Ranges north from Kangaroo Valley. Sydney area and north. Canberra. Occasionally elsewhere.

Notes

Introduced perennial herb to 0.3 m high, creeping, spreading by slender hairy stolons which root at the nodes. Fruit fleshy. Leaves basal, alternating along the stolons, compound, with 3 leaflets each 0.5–5 cm long, 7.5–25 mm wide, hairy to hairless, margins toothed. Flowers yellow, with 5 petals each 5–8 mm long, and 5 green sepals each 6–10 mm long. Fruit turning red at maturity, 10–15 mm long. Fruit edible but insipid. Flowering: mostly spring to summer.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Potentilla~indica (accessed 3 February, 2021)