Fragaria virginiana

           
Smooth Wild Strawberry

Lower Stem

South Shore of Little Quill Lake and # 640
28-May-05

Note the appressed, ascending hairs.

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Virginiana: Answers to key questions in Budd's Flora and Flora of Alberta leading to this species.  
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hairs on the stems ascending and closely pressed to stems; NOT [hairs on the stems spreading in various directions]

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upper surface glabrous; NOT [upper surface somewhat silky-pilose]

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leaf-teeth ascending; NOT [leaf-teeth sharply divergent]

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terminal leaf-tooth normally shorter than the adjacent lateral ones; NOT [terminal leaf-tooth normally projecting beyond the adjacent lateral ones]

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inflorescence at maturity usually shorter than the leaves; NOT [inflorescence at maturity usually longer than the leaves]

 
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Fragaria: Answers to key questions in Budd's Flora and Flora of Alberta leading to this genus.
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herbs, or with a woody base and otherwise herbaceous; NOT [shrubs or trees]

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plants with stolons; NOT [stolons generally absent]

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leaves compound; NOT [leaves simple, usually toothed]; NOT [leaves much dissected into linear lobes]

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basal leaves with 3 leaflets; NOT [basal leaves with more than 3 leaflets]

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hypanthium lacking hooked prickles

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calyx double, with 2 rings of lobes, the outer ones (bractlets) smaller than the inner; NOT [calyx simple, of 5 lobes]

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petals usually longer than the sepals; NOT [petals small, little if any longer than the sepals]

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petals white

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stamens 10-many; NOT 5

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carpels 10-many; NOT 5-20, NOT 2

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carpels becoming achenes (sometimes on a fleshy receptacle); NOT [carpels becoming druplets (raspberry-like)]

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receptacle fleshy in fruit (a strawberry); NOT fruit dry

 

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Rosaceae: Answers to key questions in Budd's Flora leading to this family.
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herbs; NOT shrubs, NOT trees

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plants terrestrial or semi-aquatic; plants NOT aquatic, leaves NOT submerged, leaves NOT floating

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plants NOT with colored milky juice

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plants with more than one normal leaf

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some or all leaves alternate

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leaves with stipules

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flowers with two floral rings, and with each petal distinct from the others

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flowers regular in shape

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calyx regular

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stamens usually separate or partly so; NOT in a column

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stamens usually numerous; NOT [5 or 10]

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ovary of one or more carpels, either separate or enclosed by a fleshy receptacle; NOT ovary of 5 united carpels