Taxon: Fragaria virginiana Mill.

Genus:

Fragaria

Family:

Rosaceae

Subfamily:

Rosoideae

Tribe:

Potentilleae

Subtribe:

Fragariinae

Nomen number:

267

Place of publication:

Gard. dict. ed. 8: Fragaria no. 2. 1768 (A. N. Duchesne, Hist. nat. frais. 204. 1766, as "races principales")

Link to protologue:

Comment:

Duchesne's (1766) usage of binary names for "races principales" do not qualify as species names

Typification:

Name Verified on:

24-mar-2006 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last Changed: 24-mar-2006

Species priority site is:

Natl. Germplasm Repository - Corvallis (COR)

Accessions:

0 in National Plant Germplasm System

Other conspecific taxa:

Common names:

scarlet strawberry (Source: Dict Rehm) - English
Virginia strawberry (Source: Cornucopia) - English
wild strawberry (Source: CRC MedHerbs ed2) - English
fraisier de Virginie (Source: Dict Rehm) - French
fraisier écarlate (Source: Dict Rehm) - French
Scharlacherdbeere (Source: Dict Rehm) - German
Virginiaerdbeere (Source: Dict Rehm) - German
fresón (Source: Dict Rehm) - Spanish
scharlakanssmultron (Source: Kulturvaxtdatabas) - Swedish

Economic Importance:

Human food: fruit (fide L Edible Pl; Cornucopia)
Gene sources: primary genetic relative of strawberry (fide J Amer Soc Hort Sci 131:506. 2006)
Gene sources: progenitor of strawberry (fide J Amer Soc Hort Sci 131:506. 2006)
Medicines: folklore (fide CRC MedHerbs ed2; Herbs Commerce ed2)

Distributional Range:

Native

Northern America

SUBARCTIC AMERICA: Canada, [Northwest Territory, Yukon Territory] United States [Alaska]
EASTERN CANADA: Canada [New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, Quebec]
WESTERN CANADA: Canada [Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Saskatchewan]
NORTHEASTERN U.S.A.: United States [Connecticut, Indiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Vermont, West Virginia]
NORTH-CENTRAL U.S.A.: United States [Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Wisconsin]
NORTHWESTERN U.S.A.: United States [Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, Wyoming]
SOUTHEASTERN U.S.A.: United States [Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee (http://tenn.bio.utk.edu/vascular/database/vascular-database.asp?CategoryID=Dicots&FamilyID=Rosaceae&GenusID=Fragaria&SpeciesID=virginiana), Virginia]
SOUTH-CENTRAL U.S.A.: United States [New Mexico, Texas]
SOUTHWESTERN U.S.A.: United States [Arizona, California, Nevada (w.), Utah]

Naturalized

(natzd. elsewhere)

References:

Aldén, B., S. Ryman, & M. Hjertson Svensk Kulturväxtdatabas, SKUD (Swedish Cultivated and Utility Plants Database; online resource on www.skud.info). 2012 (Kulturvaxtdatabas)
Cronquist, A. et al. Intermountain flora. 1972- (Intermt F)
Duke, J. A. et al. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs. 2002 (CRC MedHerbs ed2)
Facciola, S. Cornucopia, a source book of edible plants. 1990 (Cornucopia)
Kunkel, G. Plants for human consumption. 1984 (L Edible Pl)
McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker Herbs of commerce, ed. 2. 2000 (Herbs Commerce ed2)
Rehm, S. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. 1994 (Dict Rehm)
Staudt, G. 1999. Systematics and geographical distribution of the American strawberry species. Taxonomic studies in the genus Fragaria (Rosaceae: Potentilleae) Univ. Calif. Publ. Bot. 81:68.

Check other web resources for Fragaria virginiana Mill. :

PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
BONAP North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program:
TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Databas of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

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=267. Accessed 5 julio 2024.