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Found these berries growing within the lawn

 
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They were sort of buried in below the grass.  I see several of them.  Any ideas what they are?  They are spherical. Photo attached.

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They look like wild strawberries
 
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If sweet, wild strawberries. If bland, Indian mockerberries. Both edible.
 
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looks like what I got all over my property, ive heard them called mountain strawberries, they are not edible, not sure what they might be good for except to look at
 
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Cut or squish it open. Does it smell like strawberry? Does it have white flowers?
If not it may be mock strawberry.

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These mock strawberries make a fantastic job mingling with alpine strawberries. Very often they will pop up directly on top of an alpine strawberry!
In the first picture you have to look very hard to see which leaves belong to the mock strawberry (a bit more shiny and riffled). It is easier with the flowers, obviously ;-)

I weed them in many places, but some I leave because they are very pretty.
Not sure if I posted this second picture somewhere, a little flower fairy made of two weeds (who can guess the second one?).
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