Blooms: May-August
Habit: herb
Duration: perennial
Origin: Native
Conservation Status: Abundant; of no concern.
Distribution: Distributed widely throughout Washington except in sagebrush areas; Alaska south to California, east to the Rocky Mountains.
Habitat: Open woods to gravelly meadows in the plains and lower mountains
Habit: herb
Duration: perennial
Origin: Native
Conservation Status: Abundant; of no concern.
Distribution: Distributed widely throughout Washington except in sagebrush areas; Alaska south to California, east to the Rocky Mountains.
Habitat: Open woods to gravelly meadows in the plains and lower mountains
Species Description:
General: Freely stoloniferous, herbaceous, scapose perennial, the stolons, petioles and peduncles greenish and pubescent, the scapes usually shorter than the leaves.
Leaves: Leaves trifoliate, the petioles up to 15 cm. long; leaflets obovate to elliptic-obovate, thick, 2-7 cm. long, glabrous, glaucous and blue-green on the upper surface, silky on the lower surface, with coarse, rounded serrations most of the length; leaflets distinctly petiolate, the terminal leaflet with a 2-7 mm. stalk.
Flowers: Inflorescence open, 2-15 flowered; calyx saucer-shaped, silky, with 5 bracteoles 4-7 mm. long, alternate with, and narrower and shorter than the 5 lanceolate-elliptic calyx lobes; petals 5, white, 6-13 mm. long; stamens 20-25; pistils numerous.
Fruits: Fruit an achene, up to + immersed in the hemispheric receptacle, which becomes enlarged up to 1 cm. broad, fleshy and red.
General: Freely stoloniferous, herbaceous, scapose perennial, the stolons, petioles and peduncles greenish and pubescent, the scapes usually shorter than the leaves.
Leaves: Leaves trifoliate, the petioles up to 15 cm. long; leaflets obovate to elliptic-obovate, thick, 2-7 cm. long, glabrous, glaucous and blue-green on the upper surface, silky on the lower surface, with coarse, rounded serrations most of the length; leaflets distinctly petiolate, the terminal leaflet with a 2-7 mm. stalk.
Flowers: Inflorescence open, 2-15 flowered; calyx saucer-shaped, silky, with 5 bracteoles 4-7 mm. long, alternate with, and narrower and shorter than the 5 lanceolate-elliptic calyx lobes; petals 5, white, 6-13 mm. long; stamens 20-25; pistils numerous.
Fruits: Fruit an achene, up to + immersed in the hemispheric receptacle, which becomes enlarged up to 1 cm. broad, fleshy and red.
Accepted Name:
Fragaria virginiana DuchesneSynonyms:
(none)
Treated in Flora of the PNW as:
Fragaria virginiana
Additional Resources:
PNW Herbaria Specimens: View list of Fragaria virginiana specimens in the Consortium of Pacific Northwest Herbaria database.
WTU Herbarium Specimens: View list of Fragaria virginiana specimens in the WTU Herbarium database.
Washington Flora Checklist: Fragaria virginiana treatment.
E-Flora BC: Fragaria virginiana atlas page.
CalPhotos: Fragaria virginiana images.
USDA Plants Database: Fragaria virginiana.
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Ben Legler, 2004
Ben Legler, 2004
Ben Legler, 2004
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Susan McDougall, 2005
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Ron Bockelman, 2011
Ron Bockelman, 2011
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