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Fragaria virginiana

(Mountain Strawberry)

Interesting Facts

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Common Names

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Common Names in Arabic:

Frawlah Barri (Egypt)

Common Names in Chinese:

He Wei Zhou Cao Mei, Mei Guo Wei Ji Ni Ya Zhou Cao Mei, Wei Ji Ni Ya Zhou Cao Mei

Common Names in Czech:

Jahodník Virinský

Common Names in Danish:

Havejordbaer, Skarlagen-Jordbær, Skovjordbær

Common Names in Dutch:

Bosaardbeien, Virginia Aardbei, Wilde Bosaardbeien

Common Names in English:

Mountain Strawberry, Scarlet Strawberry, Virginia Strawberry, Wild Strawberry, Woodland Strawberry

Common Names in French:

Fraise écarlate, Fraisier écarlate, Fraisier De Virginie, Fraisier Des Champs

Common Names in German:

Scharlach-Erdbeere, Scharlacherdbeere, Virginiaerdbeere

Common Names in Japanese:

Furagaria Viruginiana

Common Names in Polish:

Poziomka Wirginijska

Common Names in Portuguese:

Morango Da América Do Norte (Brazil)

Common Names in Slovakian:

Jahoda Virgínska

Common Names in Spanish:

Fresón

Common Names in Swedish:

Scharlakanssmultron

Common Names in Turkish:

Yabani çilek

Description

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Genus Fragaria

Herbs perennial , mostly stoloniferous , polygamo-dioecious , usually spreading or appressed hairy . Stolons often rooting at nodes and forming plantlets . Leaves alternate, petiolate ; stipules adnate to base of petiole , often membranous, sheathing ; leaf blade 3-foliolate or pinnately 5-foliolate. Inflorescence erect , cymose or corymbiform , few flowered, rarely a solitary flower. Hypanthium obconic or turbinate . Sepals 5, valvate , persistent ; epicalyx segments 5, alternating with and smaller than sepals, margin entire. Petals 5, white, rarely yellow, broadly obovate or suborbicular . Stamens numerous ; anther 2-loculed. Carpels numerous, free , borne on convex receptacle; ovule ascending from middle of locule; style adaxial , short, persistent. Aggregate fruit formed from enlarged receptacle, berry-like, long conic to globose , fleshy . Achenes numerous, seated in pits on surface of aggregate fruit, minute, brittle. Seed testa membranous; cotyledons convex. x = 7.

About 20 species: temperate and subtropical regions of N hemisphere, extending to South America; nine species (three endemic, one introduced ) in China.[1]

Physical Description

Habit: Forb/herb

Flowers: Bloom Period: March, April, May. • Flower Color: near white, white

Size/Age/Growth

Size: under 6" tall.

Habitat

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 3,632 meters (0 to 11,916 feet).[2]

Biology

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Reproduction

Duration: Perennial

Growth

Culture: Space 6-9" apart.

Soil: Minimum pH: 5.1 • Maximum pH: 7.8

Sunlight: Sun Exposure: Full Sun .

Temperature: Cold Hardiness: 2b, 3a, 3b, 4a, 4b, 5a, 5b, 6a, 6b, 7a, 7b, 8a, 8b, 9a. (map)

Taxonomy

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Notes

Name Status: Provisionally Accepted Name .

Name verified on 24-Mar-2006 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 24-Mar-2006

Similar Species

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Members of the genus Fragaria

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 1054 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus. Here are just 100 of them:

F. abnormis · F. abortiva · F. alba · F. aliena · F. alpina (Alpine Strawberry) · F. alpina 'Alba' · F. americana · F. ananassa (Large-Fruited Strawberry) · F. ananassa cuneifolia · F. ananassa f. cuneifolia (Garden Strawberry) · F. ananassa var. variegata · F. argentea · F. arguta · F. aurea · F. australis · F. bargea · F. 'Baron Solemacher' · F. bathonica · F. bifera · F. bifurca · F. bonariensis · F. botryformis · F. 'Bowles' Double' · F. bracteata · F. breslingea · F. breslingea var. abortiva · F. breslingea var. hispida · F. breslingea var. nigra · F. breslingea var. pendula · F. breslingea var. pratensis · F. breslingea var. viridis · F. breviscapa · F. bucharica · F. californica · F. californica californica · F. californica var. crinita · F. californica var. lucida · F. calycina · F. calyculata · F. 'Cambridge Late Pine' · F. campana · F. canadensis · F. 'Cantata' · F. caroliniana · F. caroliniensis · F. caulescens · F. cerino-alba · F. chilensis · F. chiloensis (Sand Strawberry Fragaria Chiloensis) · F. chiloensis ananassa · F. chiloensis 'Chaval' · F. chiloensis chiloensis (Chilean Strawberry) · F. chiloensis f. chiloensis · F. chiloensis f. patagonica · F. chiloensis forma chiloensis · F. chiloensis forma patagonica · F. chiloensis lucida (Beach Strawberry) · F. chiloensis pacifica (Pacific Beach Strawberry) · F. chiloensis 'Pink Panda' (Pink Flowered Strawberry) · F. chiloensis sandwicensis (Sandwich Beach Strawberry) · F. chiloensis scouleri · F. chiloensis subsp. lucida · F. chiloensis subsp. pacifica · F. chiloensis subsp. sandwicensis · F. chiloensis var. ananassa · F. chiloensis var. calyculata · F. chiloensis var. carolinensis · F. chiloensis var. tincta · F. chiloensis 'Variegata' · F. chiloensis x virginiana · F. collina · F. collina var. cerino-alba · F. collina var. collivaga · F. collina var. consobrina · F. collina var. drymophila · F. collina var. dumetorum · F. collina var. hagenbachiana · F. collina var. rubricaulis · F. collina var. silvulicola · F. collina var. soyeriana · F. collivaga · F. consobrina · F. crinita (Pacific Strawberry) · F. cultorum · F. cuneifolia · F. daltoniana · F. 'Devon Pine' · F. dioica · F. drymophila · F. dubia · F. dulcis · F. dumetorum · F. 'Early Walpole's' · F. efflagellis · F. eflagellis · F. elatior · F. firma · F. florentina · F. fragarioides · F. 'Gerald Straley' (Strawberry)

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Further Reading

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  • Yü Te-tsun, Lu Ling-ti, Ku Tsue-chih, Li Chao-luan, Kuan Ke-chien & Chiang Wan-fu. 1974, 1985, 1986. Rosaceae. In: Yü Te-tsun, ed., Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 36: 1443; 37: 1516; 38: 1133.
  • Notes

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    Contributors

    Data Sources

    Accessed through GBIF Data Portal January 28, 2008:

    Identifiers

    Footnotes

    1. Li Chao-luang, Hiroshi Ikeda, Hideaki Ohba "Fragaria". in Flora of China Vol. 9 Page 335. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
    2. Mean = 577.260 meters (1,893.898 feet), Standard Deviation = 572.140 based on 2,636 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
    Last Revised: 7/1/2009