Virginiana: Answers to key questions in Budd's Flora and Flora of Alberta leading to this species.   hairs on the stems ascending and closely pressed to stems; NOT [hairs on the stems spreading in various directions] upper surface glabrous; NOT [upper surface somewhat silky-pilose] leaf-teeth ascending; NOT [leaf-teeth sharply divergent] terminal leaf-tooth normally shorter than the adjacent lateral ones; NOT [terminal leaf-tooth normally projecting beyond the adjacent lateral ones] inflorescence at maturity usually shorter than the leaves; NOT [inflorescence at maturity usually longer than the leaves]

 

Fragaria: Answers to key questions in Budd's Flora and Flora of Alberta leading to this genus. herbs, or with a woody base and otherwise herbaceous; NOT [shrubs or trees] plants with stolons; NOT [stolons generally absent] leaves compound; NOT [leaves simple, usually toothed]; NOT [leaves much dissected into linear lobes] basal leaves with 3 leaflets; NOT [basal leaves with more than 3 leaflets] hypanthium lacking hooked prickles calyx double, with 2 rings of lobes, the outer ones (bractlets) smaller than the inner; NOT [calyx simple, of 5 lobes] petals usually longer than the sepals; NOT [petals small, little if any longer than the sepals] petals white stamens 10-many; NOT 5 carpels 10-many; NOT 5-20, NOT 2 carpels becoming achenes (sometimes on a fleshy receptacle); NOT [carpels becoming druplets (raspberry-like)] receptacle fleshy in fruit (a strawberry); NOT fruit dry

Rosaceae: Answers to key questions in Budd's Flora leading to this family. herbs; NOT shrubs, NOT trees plants terrestrial or semi-aquatic; plants NOT aquatic, leaves NOT submerged, leaves NOT floating plants NOT with colored milky juice plants with more than one normal leaf some or all leaves alternate leaves with stipules flowers with two floral rings, and with each petal distinct from the others flowers regular in shape calyx regular stamens usually separate or partly so; NOT in a column stamens usually numerous; NOT [5 or 10] ovary of one or more carpels, either separate or enclosed by a fleshy receptacle; NOT ovary of 5 united carpels