NameThatPlant.net: Fragaria americana

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Rosids: Fabids: Rosales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (6/30/18):
Fragaria americana FAMILY Rosaceae

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Read more about Wood Stawberry at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Fragaria vesca ssp. americana FAMILY Rosaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 097-01-003:
Fragaria vesca FAMILY Rosaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Fragaria vesca var. americana

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Fragaria americana

COMMON NAME:
Wood Stawberry, American Woodland Strawberry

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image of Fragaria americana, Wood Stawberry, American Woodland Strawberry

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_fram4_001_lvd

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (6/30/18):
Fragaria americana FAMILY Rosaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Fragaria vesca ssp. americana FAMILY Rosaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 097-01-003:
Fragaria vesca FAMILY Rosaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Fragaria vesca var. americana

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Fragaria americana

3256

Forb
Perennial

Native to North Carolina

Documented growing wild in - NC -

Rare

Look for it in dry rocky woodlands, boulderfields, fields, roadsides, clearings , per Weakley's Flora

map
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...Dry

LEAVES:
Ternately compound
Alternate

FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
White
Radially symmetrical
5 united sepals
5 petals

FRUIT:
Red
Aggregate of achenes

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