Wildlife Strawberry Bushes		Fruiting Wildlife Strawberry Plants

Eastern cottontail rabbits and deer love to feast on the leaves of the strawberry bush and wildlife hunting site operators notice that when this plant is firmly established, it will practically disappear from foraging deer in the summer until it regrows from the roots. The Strawberry bush grows well in moist areas but also can easily tolerate droughts. After the leaves turn scarlet in the fall, the stems and twigs are attractive as bright green specimens in snow and ice. Many early American colonists used the strawberry bush as a tonic and diuretic. Strawberry bushes are perennial plants, and thus don't need to be reestablished every year on hunting preserves. The cold hardy nature of strawberry bushes allow its establishment successfully as far north as New York and throughout the Eastern United States. Song birds and Turkey eat the red berries that grow by the hundreds on a large bush and ripen in September through the fall, when wildlife food is scarce. The Strawberry Bush is also known as burning bush from brilliantly colored Fall leaves.