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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
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
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Fragaria vesca ssp. americana
SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 9 (2014)
Fragaria vesca ssp. americana
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, 1938)
Fragaria americana
COMMON NAME:
Wood Stawberry, American Woodland Strawberry
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_fram4_001_lvd
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Fragaria americana
FAMILY
Rosaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Fragaria vesca ssp. americana
FAMILY
Rosaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Fragaria vesca ssp. americana
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 9
Fragaria vesca ssp. americana
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, 1938)
Fragaria americana
3256
Forb
Perennial
Habitat: Dry rocky woodlands, boulderfields, fields, roadsides, clearings, per Weakley's Flora
Native to the Carolinas
Rare
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LEAVES:
Ternately compound
Alternate
FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
White
Radially symmetrical
5 united sepals
5 petals
FRUIT:
Red
Aggregate of achenes
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States (Duncan & Duncan, 1999) p026
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005) p148
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998) p071
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