Taxon: Fragaria virginiana Mill. subsp. platypetala (Rydb.) Staudt

See other conspecific taxa:

• Fragaria virginiana (248 accessions)
• Fragaria virginiana subsp. glauca (53 accessions)
• Fragaria virginiana subsp. grayana (50 accessions)
• Fragaria virginiana subsp. virginiana (59 accessions)

Economic importance:

• Gene sources: primary genetic relative of strawberry   (fide J Amer Soc Hort Sci 131:506. 2006)
  

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View ethnobotanical data from Moerman's Native American Ethnobotany Database

Distributional range:

• NORTHERN AMERICA (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
  Western Canada: Canada - British Columbia [s.]
  North-Central U.S.A.: United States - Wisconsin
  Northwestern U.S.A.: United States - Colorado, Idaho, Montana [w.], Oregon, Washington, Wyoming [w.]
  Southwestern U.S.A.: United States - California

References:

• Hancock, J. F. et al. 2004. Taxonomic variation among North and South American subspecies of Fragaria virginiana Miller and Fragaria chiloensis (L.) Miller. Canad. J. Bot. 82:1632–1644.
• Harrison, R. E. et al. 1997. Morphological and molecular variation among populations of octoploid Fragaria virginiana and F. chiloensis (Rosaceae) from North America. Amer. J. Bot. 84:612–620.
• Scott, D. H. 1950. Cytological studies on polyploids derived from tetraploid Fragaria vesca and cultivated strrawberris. Genetics 36:312.
• Staudt, G. 1989. The species of Fragaria, their taxonomy and geographical distribution. Acta Hort. 265:31.
• Staudt, G. 1999. Systematics and geographical distribution of the American strawberry species. Taxonomic studies in the genus Fragaria (Rosaceae: Potentilleae). Univ. Calif. Publ. Bot. 81:96.
• Staudt, G. 2009. Strawberry biogeography, genetics and systematics. Acta Hort. 842:71–83.
• Taylor, R. L. & B. MacBryde. 1977. Vascular plants of British Colombia.

Synonyms:

• (≡) Fragaria platypetala Rydb. (basionym)
  
• (≡) Fragaria virginiana var. platypetala (Rydb.) H. M. Hall
  

Check other web resources for Fragaria virginiana Mill. subsp. platypetala (Rydb.) Staudt:

• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden

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• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.

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• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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