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Duchesnea indica

Duchesnea indica var. indica

Indian-strawberry, mock-stawberry
Photo is of parent taxon

Indian strawberry, mock strawberry
Habit Herbaceous, silky-hairy perennial, the stems trailing and freely rooting at the nodes, producing off-set plants.
Leaves

Leaves slender-petiolate, the stipules toothed or lobed;

leaflets 3, elliptic to ovate-elliptic, 2-4 cm. long, with rounded teeth.

Flowers

Flowers single on axillary peduncles;

calyx saucer-shaped, 4-6 mm. long at flowering, the five lobes considerably shorter than the alternating, broadly obovate, 3-5 lobed bracteoles;

petals 5, deciduous, yellow, 3-5 mm. long;

stamens 20-25, shorter than the petals;

pistils numerous.

Fruits

Fruit a reddish achene;

receptacle becoming enlarged, hemispheric, fleshy in fruit (strawberry-like).

Duchesnea indica

Duchesnea indica var. indica
Flowering time May-June May-June
Habitat Disturbed forest and forest edge at low elevations, where escaping from cultivation. Disturbed forest and forest edge at low elevations, where escaping from cultivation.
Distribution
Occurring west of the Cascades crest in lowland western Washington; southwestern British Columbia to Oregon; also in eastern North America.
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Occurring west of the Cascades crest in lowland western Washington; southwestern British Columbia to Oregon; also in eastern North America.
Origin Introduced from Asia Introduced from Asia
Conservation status Not of concern Not of concern
Subordinate taxa
D. indica var. indica
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