Wild Strawberry
Scientific name: Fragaria vesca L.
Diagnostic features
Stolons absent to abundant.
Leaflets 1-6cm, elliptic-obovate, acute at base, rather glossy but pubescent to sparsely so on upperside when fresh.
Flowering stems about as long as rosette-leaves, to 30cm.
Uppermost pedicel in each cyme with apically directed hairs at fruiting.
Flowers 10-20mm across, bisexual.
Fruit c.1cm across, with sepals not appressed, with achenes raised above surface of ripe receptacle.
Chromosome number: 2n=14.
Habitat
Native; woods, scrub and hedgerows.
Distribution
Common throughout British Isles.
This species is keyed out on Page 2304 in the Text Key.
Note
A robust variant without stolons and with flower and fruit produced continuously until the frosts is known as Alpine Strawberry, and may escape. See Potentilla sterilis for leaf differences. |
