Potentilla indica (mock strawberry)

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Potentilla indica, photographed by Michael and Antoni Hinczewski — fig. a Michael and Antoni Hinczewski, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-11 / obs. 205349737

Potentilla indica, photographed by Patrick Meurin — fig. b Patrick Meurin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205519072

Potentilla indica, photographed by Glenn Berry — fig. c Glenn Berry, CC0 1.0 / obs. 204735098

Potentilla indica, photographed by Paul Cook — fig. d Paul Cook, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205475180

Potentilla indica, photographed by Corey Farwell — fig. e Corey Farwell, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204865911

Potentilla indica, photographed by Mila C. — fig. f Mila C., CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204473824

Potentilla indica, photographed by Anne Parker — fig. g Anne Parker, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204701049

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Confused withby our own model

These are not lookalikes we guessed at. Each one is a species our identification model genuinely mistook for this plant, and how many times. The error rate is published.

Flowering n = 4,719 observations

482

1717

1143

347

175

187

240

181

Flowering observations of Potentilla indica by month
Month	Observations
Jan	46
Feb	51
Mar	482
Apr	1717
May	1143
Jun	347
Jul	175
Aug	187
Sep	240
Oct	181
Nov	98
Dec	52

Peak flowering in Apr, from 4,719 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 28 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

Duchesnea fragarioides Sm.
Duchesnea fragiformis Sm.
Duchesnea indica (Andrews) Teschem.
Duchesnea indica f. albocaput Naruh.
Duchesnea indica var. albicarpa Y.N.Lee
Duchesnea indica var. major Makino
Duchesnea indica var. microphylla T.T.Yu & T.C.Ku
Duchesnea indica var. typica Makino
Duchesnea major (Makino) Makino
Fragaria arguta Lindl.
Fragaria arguta Lindl. ex Wall.
Fragaria arguta Lindl. ex Hook.f.
Fragaria indica Andrews
Fragaria malayana Roxb.
Fragaria nilagirica Zenker
Fragaria roxburghii Wight & Arn.
Potentilla denticulosa Ser.
Potentilla durandii Torr. & A.Gray
Potentilla fragariifolia Klotzsch
Potentilla fragariifolia Klotzsch ex Lehm.
Potentilla indica f. albicaput (Naruh.) H.Ohashi
Potentilla indica var. microphylla (T.T.Yu & T.C.Ku) H.Ohashi
Potentilla indica var. serrulata Th.Wolf
Potentilla khasiana C.B.Clarke ex Dikshit & Panigrahi

and 4 more.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.