Fragaria virginiana
blueleaf strawberry, broad petal strawberry, common strawberry, mountain strawberry, Virginia strawberry, wild strawberry
usually green to bluish green, sometimes bright green, sometimes glaucous, thin but ± stout (slightly thicker than F. vesca), sometimes slightly leathery, not reticulately veined abaxially, terminal tooth of terminal leaflet usually shorter (often narrower) than adjacent teeth.
bisexual or unisexual (plants dioecious, gynodioecious, or trioecious);
hypanthium 9.5–27 mm diam.;
petals 5, obovate to widely obovate, margins overlapping or distinct.
usually deeply embedded, rarely in pits or ± superficial, yellowish green to reddish brown, 1.2–1.8 mm;
bractlets clasping, spreading, or ± reflexed, sepals clasping;
torus usually not easily separate from hypanthium.
Fragaria virginiana
Subspecies 4 (4 in the flora).
It seems inappropriate to the author to follow the proposal of K. E. Hokanson et al. (2006) to reclassify the subspecies of Fragaria virginiana to forms.
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
1. Stolons, petioles, peduncles, and pedicels usually appressed ascending-hairy, sometimes almost glabrous. | subsp. glauca |
1. Petioles spreading-hairy; stolons, peduncles, and pedicels usually spreading- or appressed ascending-hairy, sometimes glabrous | → 2 |
2. Stolons and peduncles spreading- or appressed-ascending-hairy, proximally often spreading-hairy, distally ascending-hairy or glabrous; pedicels appressed-hairy or glabrous. | subsp. virginiana |
2. Stolons, peduncles, and pedicels spreading-hairy throughout | → 3 |
3. Leaflet blades green to bright green, not glaucous, terminal leaflets slightly rhombic to broadly elliptic, margins sharply serrate throughout; bractlets slightly clasping or spreading to ± reflexed; e, sc United States. | subsp. grayana |
3. Leaflet blades usually bluish green, slightly glaucous, sometimes dull, terminal leaflets ovate-obovate to cuneate or truncate, margins serrate or crenate only in distal 1/3; bractlets clasping or slightly spreading; w North America. | subsp. platypetala |
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