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the calyx lobes ovate, acuminate, red or purple within, much exceeding 

 the purple, ovate-lanceolate petals; pistils numerous, seated on an enlarged, 

 pubescent receptacle which becomes spongy in fruit. 



In swamps and peat bogs, Greenland and Labrador to New Jersey, 

 Iowa, British Columbia, Wyoming, Alaska and California; also in northern 

 Europe and Asia. Flowering from June to August. 



Wild or Scarlet Strawberry 



Fragaria virginiana (Linnaeus) Duchesne 



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Plants tufted, usually several or many together, dark green, foliage 

 villous-pubescent with spreading hairs. Leaves thick, with three broadly 

 oval or obovate, coarsely toothed leaflets, the terminal one usually narrowed 

 at the base ; petioles 2 to 6 inches long. Flowering scapes as long or shorter 

 than the leaves, bearing several white flowers on appressed-pubescent 

 pedicels. Flowers one-half to three-fourths of an inch broad, white, petals 

 obovate. Fruit red, ovoid, the achenes imbedded in pits. 



In rather dry soil, fields, hillsides etc., Newfoundland to South Dakota, 

 Florida and Oklahoma. Flowering in April and May. 



The European Wood Strawberry (Fragaria vesca Linnaeus) is 

 a common escape everywhere in the east and frequently hybridizes with 

 F. virginiana, so that some forms are difficult to classify. The 

 American Wood Strawberry (Fragaria americana (Porter) 

 Britton), with longer flowering scapes and elongated-conic fruit, with 

 achenes borne on its shining, even surface and but slightly attached to it, 

 is a common species in rocky woodlands. The Northern Wild Strawberry 

 (Fragaria canadensis Michaux) has a long, slender fruit with 

 the achenes sunk in pits and oblong or narrowly obovate leaflets. It ranges 

 across the northern part of the state. 



