[brokenglass]

Is this a mock strawberry or a barren strawberry?     Very convincing strawberry type plant flowers look similar but yellow not white or pink,   Stolens carry flowers as well!     Ther leaves look like strawberry leaves but smaller, shape and toothed edge.       Looked up Google but the plant they refer to appears to be American.

[Paul Plots]

Any chance of a photo? It might help others identify it for you. 

[sunshineband]

Herb Bennet (Wood Avens) is a wild plant with yellow flowers of same structure as a strawberry plant, and leaves are fairly similar too.

The flower stalk itself is usually a bit longer though

[Paul Plots]

Following up sunshineband's suggestion........

Here's a picture and info about Herb Bennet..... similar to strawberry leaves as it has a toothed edge and the same shape but leaves grow out all the way along the stems rather than directly out of the base of the plant as in real strawberries.

Link to photo and info: Herb Bennet

[brokenglass]

Many thanks you are both correct it is wood avens.   I had never come across it before and it was in a neighbour's strawberry plot.

[Paul Plots]

Many thanks you are both correct it is wood avens.   I had never come across it before and it was in a neighbour's strawberry plot.

To tell you the truth I hadn't a clue!!  I just followed Sunshineband's suggestion and looked it up. 

[sunshineband]

Many thanks you are both correct it is wood avens.   I had never come across it before and it was in a neighbour's strawberry plot.

To tell you the truth I hadn't a clue!!  I just followed Sunshineband's suggestion and looked it up. 

and jolly decent of you to say so, too 

[Paul Plots]

Yellow flowered strawberries could catch on. Is there such a thing? 

I tried the pink ones but wasn't impressed with the fruit - pretty though as an ornament. 

[allotmentann]

There is a yellow flowered strawberry, although how nice it is and whether it grows in our climate I do not know
http://www.plantcare.com/encyclopedia/indian-mock-strawberry-1219.aspx