Wild strawberry's fame for its medical powers goes all the way back to Antiquity, when the Romans recommended it for its purifying and refreshing qualities.
Wild Strawberry
Fragaria virginiana Duchesne
Family: Rosaceae, Rose
Genus: Fragaria ...
Wild Strawberry
Characteristics
This plant bears very small fruits which have a wonderful taste. It creeps with runners and the flowers are very easily spotted.
Wild strawberry, Alpine strawberry, Fragaria vesca
Wild strawberries are an excellent addition to any backyard garden. Also called Frais des bois, or Woodland strawberry, this tiny, intensely fragrant fruit produces from early spring until fall.
Fragaria vesca (Wild Strawberry)
Rosaceae (Rose Family)
By far the less common of our two species of wild strawberries, this plant still can be found through the mountains with dainty flowers and sweet fruit.
---Description---The Wild Strawberry, a delicate, thin-leaved plant, with small, scarlet berries, cone-shaped and studded with tiny, brown 'seeds,' has a fragrance and flavour more delicate even than the cultivated Strawberry.
The common cultivated or garden strawberry (Fragaria X ananassa) is a complex hybrid species developed over many years by crossing several wild strawberry species. The plant is a low growing perennial with three-palmate leaves and toothed leaflets.
In autumn of 2003, a fellow gardener who read an earlier version of this page e-mailed me to ask if I wanted a start off a wild strawberry shrub, as they grew on her back property which was butted up against the John Houston National Forest.
vesca, Woodland Strawberry
virginiana, Wild Strawberry
Galium spp., Bedstraws
asparine, Cleavers
asprellum, Rough Bedstraw
boreale, Northern Bedstraw
lanceolatum, Yellow Wild Licorice
triflorum, Fragrant Bedstraw ...
Likewise, there are many natives, such as false sunflower (Heliopsis helianthoides), wild strawberry (Fragaria virginiana) and virgin's bower clematis (Clematis virginiana), that will muscle out any cultivated variety in their path, ...
California Strawberry, Wild Strawberry, Woodland Strawberry
Common Names in Finnish:
Ahomansikka, Mansikka ...
false strawberry, Indian strawberry, Indian mock-strawberry, mock strawberry, old-world strawberry, wild Indian strawberry, wild strawberry, yellow-flowered strawberry
Family
Rosaceae ...
chiloensis, believed to be indigenous to Chile and to the mountains of W North America, with the wild strawberry (F. virginiana) of E North America.
It is susceptible to Verticilium wilt, so it works best to plant it with other low growing ground covers of similar competitive ability such as wild strawberry, etc.
Hardy to USDA Zone 4 Native to Europe.
(castellano), Mazura (vasco), Morango (gallego y/o portugués), Morangueiro (gallego y/o portugués), Morogo (gallego y/o portugués), Morogueiro (gallego y/o portugués), Rosaceae (familia), Ti-mei (chino), Walderdbeere (alemán), Wild Strawberry ...
 See also: Strawberry, Fragaria, Green, May, Aster
  
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