Finding Wild Strawberries (Fragaria virginiana) Virginia Strawberry

I first started looking for these plants roughly three years ago. I in the meantime have learned several tricks that I am most excited to share on how to find and destiguish them. These plants are in the rose family and grow in much of the USA, however they can be difficult to locate. First off I will describe the plants they have three leaves and are toothed more intensily then the mock strawberries(also edible but flavorless) they also have longer leaves thiner leaves and the two not center leaves are not curved in a crescent like shape on the side facing the middle. They also do have runners and white flowers with five petals and white centers. A telltale destiction is the flowers mock strawberries have yellow while wild strawberries have white. The plants are low growing in old (IMPORTANT) fields look for them away from the suburbs in pasture or farmland in the north or in the mountains or foothills down south also farmland or pasture. the berries grow in may to August and are shaped similar to store berries but are more intenselly flavored and scented. The plants are also taller than mock strawberries more like a bramble or southern dewberries from what I have seen. My personal tips are as follows, Look for rural feilds I also noticed the plants seldom grow under pines, preferring maple oak and beech, this can be because of several factors I would wager it is acidity even though pines needles do loose their acidity but fresh ones still fall, or maybe michorizal netwarks. I cannot stress that last point enough they seem to grow under certain trees.