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Fragaria vesca

L. (1753)

This name is accepted

Kingdom: Viridiplantae Phylum: Magnoliophyta Class/Clade: Eudicot-Rosids Order: Rosales Family: Rosaceae Genus: Fragaria

alpine strawberry, European strawberry, sow-teat strawberry, wild strawberry, woodland strawberry

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Description

Key Characters:

Growth Form: Perennial herbs.

Stems: Producing long slender stolons.

Roots: From 1 to several clumped rhizomes 1–5 cm long.

Leaves: Leaves compound (odd-pinnate). In a basal rosette. Leaflets ovate, obovate, or sometimes rhombic, leaflets (1–)2–8 cm long, 1–5 cm wide, lateral petiolules 0.1–0.5 cm long, the terminal ones 0.1–0.6 cm long. Upper surfaces bright green, sparsely appressed long–pilose, glabrate with age; lower surfaces glaucous and sparsely to moderately appressed silky pilose, sometimes glabrate with age. Margins coarsely serrate, sometimes only in upper ½. Petioles 2–18 cm long, silky pilose (hairs retrorsely appressed or sometimes spreading). Stipules brown, membranous, usually 0.8–1.7 cm long, coherent to base of petioles.

Flowers: Flowers in scapes 5–30 cm long, about as long as or longer than leaves, erect in fruit. Flowers bisexual (perfect) or unisexual (and then plants polygamodioecious). Pedicels usually 15–20 mm long; epicalyx lobes lanceolate, 3.3–5 mm long. Calyx of 5 sepals, ovate, distinct, imbricate, 3.5–5 mm long, sparsely strigose. Corolla of 5 petals, white, obovate, distinct, imbricate, 4.5–7 mm long. Stamens numerous, in 1–3 whorls, persistent; filaments slender; anthers dithecal. Ovary superior, carpels numerous, attached to the elevated conical receptacle; styles lateral.

Fruit: Fruit an aggregate consisting of numerous minute achenes borne on the surface of the enlarged fleshy receptacle; white or sometimes red; rather dry; hemispherical; 1–1.5 cm long. Achenes superficially attached; 1–1.3 mm long. Seeds 1 per achene.

Ploidy: 2n = 14; 35

Habitat: Mesic to wet forest.

Elevation Range: 730–1,700 m.

Historical Distribution

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Uses and Culture

USES

  • Yes

Natural History

Statewide Status

Naturalized

Island Status

Kaua'i Naturalized
Hawai'i Naturalized

Dispersal Agents


Pollinators

Bibliography

Name Published In: Sp. Pl.: 494 (1753)

Other References

Wagner et al. 1990:1104 (K, H)

Occurrences

SNo. Scientific Name Locality Habitat Basis of Record Recorded By Record Number Island Source Date
1 Fragaria vesca Kulani Project, South Hilo District, near Puu Kipu UNKNOWN Vladimir J. Krajina V186470 Hawaii HAPI 12/25/1961
2 Fragaria vesca Kapilimao UNKNOWN Vladimir J. Krajina V184612 Hawaii HAPI 6/22/1966
3 Fragaria vesca Kulani Project, South Hilo District, near Puu Kipu UNKNOWN Vladimir J. Krajina V186470 Hawaii HAPI 12/25/1961
4 Fragaria vesca Kapilimao UNKNOWN Vladimir J. Krajina V184612 Hawaii HAPI 6/22/1966
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