Fragaria virginiana
Fragaria vesca
blueleaf strawberry, broad petal strawberry, common strawberry, mountain strawberry, Virginia strawberry, wild strawberry
wild strawberry, wood strawberry, woodland strawberry, woods 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.
bright green (sometimes darker green in subsp. californica), not glaucous, thin, not leathery, not reticulately veined abaxially, terminal tooth of terminal leaflet longer than or equal to adjacent teeth (sometimes equal to or shorter than adjacent teeth in subsp. californica).
bisexual or unisexual (plants dioecious, gynodioecious, or trioecious);
hypanthium 9.5–27 mm diam.;
petals 5, obovate to widely obovate, margins overlapping or distinct.
bisexual or unisexual;
hypanthium 11–21.2 mm diam.;
petals 5, ± obovate to nearly orbiculate, 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.
deeply embedded, in shallow pits, or superficial, yellowish green to reddish brown, 1–1.5 mm;
bractlets and sepals clasping, spreading, or reflexed in fruit;
torus easily or not easily separating from hypanthium.
Fragaria virginiana
Fragaria vesca
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.)
Subspecies 4 (4 in the flora).
(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 |
1. Fruiting tori easily separating from hypanthia, tori globose to ± oblong; achenes superficial or in shallow pits; leaves green to dark green, terminal leaflet blades ± round or slightly ovate-rhombic, length/width 0.9–1.3, teeth: relative number 0.4–0.9, relative size 1–2.3; bractlets and sepals spreading or reflexed in fruit. | subsp. californica |
1. Fruiting tori easily or not easily separating from hypanthia, tori globose, subglobose, oblong-ovoid, or elongate-conic (slightly oblate or conic); achenes superficial, in shallow pits, or deeply embedded; leaves green to bright green, terminal leaflet blades ovate or obovate to slightly rhombic, length/width 1.1–1.8, teeth: relative number 0.2–0.6, relative size 1.5–4; bractlets and sepals clasping, spreading, or reflexed in fruit | → 2 |
2. Flowers usually bisexual, sometimes pistillate, 15.3–23.8 mm diam.; petals usually white, sometimes pinkish; bractlets clasping or spreading to slightly reflexed, sepals clasping in fruit; achenes in shallow pits or deeply embedded; tori usually not easily separating from hypanthia. | subsp. bracteata |
2. Flowers bisexual, 12–20.5 mm diam.; petals white; bractlets and sepals spreading to reflexed in fruit; achenes superficial or in shallow pits; tori easily separating from hypanthia | → 3 |
3. Fruiting tori globose or subglobose (often slightly oblate or conic); leaves bright green; achenes superficial or in shallow pits. | subsp. vesca |
3. Fruiting tori elongate-conic (often somewhat pointed); leaves green to bright green; achenes superficial. | subsp. americana |
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- Local floras: BC, CA, OR, WA
- Local Web sites: CalFlora, CalPhotos, Flora NW, Go Botany, IL Wildflowers, MI Flora, MN Wildflowers, PNW Herbaria, SW CO Wildflowers, Turner Photog.
- WildflowerSearch
- iNaturalist (observations)
- USDA Plants Database
- LBJ Wildflower Center
- SEINet
- Plants of the World Online
- Encyclopedia of Life
- Wikipedia
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