Other conspecific taxa:

• Fragaria vesca f. alba (0 accessions)
• Fragaria vesca f. albida (0 accessions)
• Fragaria vesca f. bracteata (0 accessions)
• Fragaria vesca f. helleri (0 accessions)
• Fragaria vesca f. roseiflora (0 accessions)
• Fragaria vesca f. semperflorens (0 accessions)
• Fragaria vesca subsp. americana (0 accessions)
• Fragaria vesca subsp. bracteata (0 accessions)
• Fragaria vesca subsp. californica (0 accessions)
• Fragaria vesca subsp. vesca (0 accessions)

Synonyms:

• (=) Fragaria insularis Rydb.

Common names:

• alpine strawberry  (Source: Scient Hort) - English
• European strawberry  (Source: Food Feed Crops US) - English
• wild strawberry  (Source: Dict Rehm) - English
• woodland strawberry  (Source: Hortus 3) - English
• fraisier commun  (Source: Dict Rehm) - French
• fraisier des bois  (Source: Dict Rehm) - French
• Walderdbeere  (Source: Dict Rehm) - German
• besuka-ichigo  (Source: F Japan) - Japanese Rōmaji
• ezo-hebi-ichigo  (Source: F JapanOhwi) - Japanese Rōmaji
• ezo-no-hebi-ichigo  (Source: F Japan) - Japanese Rōmaji
• morangueiro-bravo  (Source: Dict Rehm) - Portuguese
• fresa silvestre  (Source: Dict Rehm) - Spanish
• fresal común  (Source: Dict Rehm) - Spanish
• smultron  (Source: Kulturvaxtdatabas) - Swedish
• ye cao mei  (Source: F ChinaEng) - Transcribed Chinese

Economic Importance:

• Human food: fruit (fide Dict Gard; Cornucopia)
• Gene sources: research in plant biology (based on the genetic knowledge of Fragaria fide Genetics 36:312. 1951)
• Gene sources: tertiary genetic relative of strawberry (fide Acta Hort 265:32. 1989, as diploid, self compatible)
• Medicines: folklore (fide CRC MedHerbs ed2; Herbs Commerce ed2)

Distributional Range:

Native

Africa

• NORTHERN AFRICA: Tunisia

Asia-Temperate

• WESTERN ASIA: Iran, Turkey
• CAUCASUS: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Russian Federation, [Dagestan] Russian Federation-Ciscaucasia [Ciscaucasia]
• SIBERIA: Russian Federation [Altay, Buryatia, Gorno-Altay, Irkutsk, Kemerovo, Krasnoyarsk, Kurgan, Novosibirsk, Omsk, Tomsk, Tuva, Tyumen]
• MIDDLE ASIA: Kazakhstan (e.), Kyrgyzstan
• MONGOLIA: Mongolia
• CHINA: China [Gansu, Guizhou, Jilin, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Xinjiang, Yunnan]

Europe

• NORTHERN EUROPE: Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Ireland, Norway, Sweden, United Kingdom
• MIDDLE EUROPE: Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Netherlands, Poland, Slovakia, Switzerland
• EASTERN EUROPE: Belarus, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Russian Federation-European part, [European part] Ukraine
• SOUTHEASTERN EUROPE: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Italy (incl. Sardinia, Sicily), Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia
• SOUTHWESTERN EUROPE: France, Portugal, Spain

Northern America

• EASTERN CANADA: Canada [New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Quebec]
• WESTERN CANADA: Canada [Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Saskatchewan]
• NORTHEASTERN U.S.A.: United States [Connecticut, Indiana, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Vermont, West Virginia]
• NORTH-CENTRAL U.S.A.: United States [Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wisconsin]
• NORTHWESTERN U.S.A.: United States [Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, Wyoming]
• SOUTHEASTERN U.S.A.: United States [Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, North Carolina, Virginia]
• SOUTH-CENTRAL U.S.A.: United States [New Mexico, Texas]
• SOUTHWESTERN U.S.A.: United States [Arizona, California, Nevada, Utah]


Naturalized

Africa

• MACARONESIA: Portugal, [Azores] Spain [Canary Islands]
• SOUTHERN AFRICA: South Africa [Eastern Cape, Western Cape, Limpopo, Mpumalanga]

Asia-Temperate

• EASTERN ASIA: Japan [Hokkaido]

Australasia

• NEW ZEALAND: New Zealand

Northern America

• EASTERN CANADA: Canada [Prince Edward Island]
• Mexico

Southern America

• CARIBBEAN: Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica
• CENTRAL AMERICA: Guatemala
• NORTHERN SOUTH AMERICA: Venezuela
• BRAZIL: Brazil
• WESTERN SOUTH AMERICA: Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru
• SOUTHERN SOUTH AMERICA: Argentina

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Cite as: USDA, Agricultural Research Service, National Plant Germplasm System. 2024. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN-Taxonomy).
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. URL: http://germoplasma.iniaf.gob.bo/gringlobal/taxonomydetail.aspx?id=264. Accessed 5 julio 2024.