Wild Strawberry

Fragaria virginiana

By: Daniel Hughes

Classification

Kingdom PlantaeSubkingdom TracheobiontaSuperdivision SpermatophytaDivision MagnoliophytaClass MagnoliopsidaSubclass RosidaeOrder Rosales

Family Rosaceae

Genus Fragaria

Species Fragaria virginiana

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Shape, Form, Type

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It is small with 5-petal white flowers, and the stalk is long and slender. It grows horizontally and is weed-like. The wild strawberry is a herbaceous plant. Figure 1: Wild Strawberry

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Leaf

• The leaves are on a separate stalk. Each leaf is 3-parted palmate-compound, with large, even teeth, and their leaflets are long-oval and 2-3 inches long.

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Figure 2: Leaf of Wild strawberry

Bud

Figure 3: Bud of Wild Strawberry

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Flower

• small, white, 5-petaled flower, 3-parted leaf, and familiar fruit; flower white, radially-symmetrical, 5 petals, 1/2 to 1 inch broad, on separate flower stalkhttp://

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Fruit

• fruit drooping on long, slender, stalk, much smaller than commercial strawberry and red when ripe

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Figure 5: Fruit of Wild Strawberry

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Habitat and Range• Habitats include moist to mesic

black soil prairies, openings and edges of woodlands (including drier areas), savannas, limestone glades, and areas along railroads. Wild Strawberry is able to tolerate competition from taller plants because it develops early in the spring, and is able to tolerate some shade later in the year. It occurs in both degraded and high quality habitats, often not far from woodland areas.

http://www.illinoiswildflowers.info/prairie/plantx/wld_strawberryx.htm

Uses

• The fruit is edible and non-poisonous. The dried leaves can be used to make tea.

• Earls, dukes, princes, and marquises used the common strawberries white leaves as emblems on their crowns.

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http://montana.plant-life.org/species/fragaria_virgin.htm

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