Hi all, Last year I dug up what I thought was a couple fragaria virginiana plants from the side of the road (I now know that’s a no-no, but the site was super disturbed already :/) to encourage as ground cover in my native garden. I just found out that what I thought was f. virginiana is f. vesca, …

The key difference between Fragaria vesca and Fragaria virginica seems to be the terminal teeth of the leaves. I assume the subspecies of F. virginica will still follow the same pattern. I can vaguely tell the difference from photo IDs but I don’t have a key for them. On F. virginica, the apical to…

Flora of North America has a key to the subspecies ( here ), along with range maps for each subspecies. The key is based largely on fruit (technically “torus”) shape. Depending on where in North America you are located, the range maps might be more useful than the key - the introduced F. vesca vesca i…

American native fragaria vesca (ssp. americana) vs European fragaria vesca (ssp. vesca)

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American native fragaria vesca (ssp. americana) vs European fragaria vesca (ssp. vesca)

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