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Scientific name:

Potentilla sterilis

Vernacular name:

Strawberry, Barren


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Barren Strawberry

Scientific name: Potentilla sterilis (L.) Garcke

Diagnostic features
Perennial with procumbent stolons and terminal leaf-rosettes.
Leaves ternate, with broadly obovate leaflets.
Flowers 1-3 in cymes on decumbent axillary flowering stems to 15cm.
Petals white, c. as long as sepals.
Achenes pubescent on one side.

Chromosome number: 2n=28.

Habitat
Native; wood-margins and clearings, scrub and hedgebanks.

Distribution
Common throughout British Isles except extreme North.

This species is keyed out on Page 2288 in the Text Key.

Note
Distinguished from Fragaria vesca by the grey-green leaflets with terminal tooth shorter than adjacent 2, and petals with wide gaps between.

Potentilla sterilis
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