Woodland strawberry
Fragaria vesca L.
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 9 cm
- wide
- 23 cm
Rosaceae
Also called European strawberry, Alpine strawberry, Wood strawberry, Wild strawberry, Hillside Strawberry
Formerly Potentilla vesca
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- PerennialKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- N. America to Guatemala, Macaronesia, Europe to Siberia and XinjiangKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from Native Plant Trust and RHS, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Height
- 5 cm to 13 cmRead from Native Plant Trust, not yet checkedOne source. Checker: Native Plant Trust page does not state 2-5 in: page unreachable (connection refused)
- Spread
- 15 cm to 30 cmRead from Native Plant Trust, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from Native Plant Trust and RHS, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Flowers
- WhiteRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -40 °C (USDA zone 3a)Read from Native Plant Trust, one source
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- French
- Fraisier des bois, fraisier sauvage
- Spanish
- Fresa, Frutilla, Fresa silvestre
- root
- FRAVES, Frēvla salvâdga, abruóganu
- German
- Wald-Erdbeere, Walderdbeere, Monatserdbeere
- Catalan
- maduixera, Maduixera
- Russian
- Земляника лесная
- Italian
- Fragolina di bosco, Fragola di bosco
- Finnish
- Ahomansikka
- Swedish
- smultron, Smultron
- Polish
- Poziomka pospolita
- Portuguese
- morango, Morango-silvestre, morangueiro-silvestre
- Czech
- jahodník obecný
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Native Plant Trust, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- RHS, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 3.0 de
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- 3D model: Fragaria vesca (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.