Fragaria vesca subsp. bracteata
( A. Heller) Staudt
Woodland strawberry, Pacific Strawberry
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What to Eat
Edible parts: Fruit, Leaves - tea
The small fruit are eaten fresh, and fresh or dried leaves are brewed into tea.
Where to Find It
It is a temperate plant.
Canada, Central America, Guatemala, Mexico, North America, USA,
How to Identify
A herb. It is a ground cover plant. It has strong runners. The flowers are white. The fruit are small edible berries.
Wikipedia
Source ↗Fragaria vesca, commonly called the wild strawberry, woodland strawberry, Alpine strawberry, Carpathian strawberry or European strawberry, is a perennial herbaceous plant in the rose family that grows naturally throughout much of the Northern Hemisphere, and that produces edible fruits. The Latin specific epithet vesca literally means "thin" or "feeble", but likely carries the sense "edible" in this context (compare vescor, "to eat").
Notes
There are 12 Fragaria species.
Names & Synonyms
Fresa
References (6)
- Beckstrom-Sternberg, Stephen M., and James A. Duke. "The Foodplant Database." http://probe.nalusda.gov:8300/cgi-bin/browse/foodplantdb.(ACEDB version 4.0 - data version July 1994)
- Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 25:194. 1898
- Cruz, I. M., et al, 2015, Edible fruits and seeds in the State of Mexico. Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Agricolas. Vol. 6. Num. 2 pp 331-346
- Desert Survivors Online Plant Database (As Fragaria bracteata)
- Plants for a Future database, The Field, Penpol, Lostwithiel, Cornwall, PL22 0NG, UK. http://www.scs.leeds.ac.uk/pfaf/
- Segura, S., et al, 2018, The edible fruit species in Mexico. Genet Resour Crop Evol (2018) 65:1767–1793
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