Fragaria moschataDuchesne ex Weston

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Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Fragaria moschata, photographed by Vadim Zizov
fig. a Vadim Zizov, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-04 / obs. 203402283
Fragaria moschata, photographed by Екатерина Гущина
fig. b Екатерина Гущина, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 199679336
Fragaria moschata, photographed by Gabriel Mayrhofer
fig. c Gabriel Mayrhofer, CC0 1.0 / obs. 202222170
Fragaria moschata, photographed by stolbovsky
fig. d stolbovsky, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 193702324
Fragaria moschata, photographed by Christian Berg
fig. e Christian Berg, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 193836134
Fragaria moschata, photographed by BDaniil
fig. f BDaniil, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 190873759
Fragaria moschata, photographed by Dmitry Tikhonov
fig. g Dmitry Tikhonov, CC0 1.0 / obs. 164882895
Fragaria moschata, photographed by snaily_naily
fig. h snaily_naily, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 156894604

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Accession
K001527125
Filed as
Fragaria moschata Duchesne ex Weston
Det. by
Christenhusz, M.J.M.
Collected
Christenhusz, M.J.M. 2023-05-05
Origin
GB
The sheet
View the digitised specimen (CC BY 4.0)

A real pressed plant, in a real collection, under the accession number above. Not an illustration of one. The holding institution does not serve this sheet’s image to third parties, so there is no photograph here. The record is real and the link goes to it. Where we hold no openly licensed sheet for a species this section is simply absent, and where a sheet never recorded who determined it, that field stays empty rather than being filled in. Roughly half of all herbarium sheets never recorded a determiner, which is ordinary.

Native range 25 botanical countries

Regions where Fragaria moschata is native: Altay, Krasnoyarsk, North Caucasus, Transcaucasus, West Siberia, Albania, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Central European Russia, Czechia-Slovakia, East European Russia, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, NW. Balkan Pen., Poland, Romania, Sicilia, South European Russia, Switzerland, Ukraine AltayKrasnoyarskNorth CaucasusTranscaucasusWest SiberiaAlbaniaAustriaBelarusBelgiumBulgariaCentral European RussiaCzechia-SlovakiaEast European RussiaFranceGermanyHungaryItalyNetherlandsNW. Balkan Pen.PolandRomaniaSiciliaSouth European RussiaSwitzerlandUkraine
Native distribution of Fragaria moschata, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Albania ALB EUROPE
Austria AUT
Belarus BLR
Belgium BGM
Bulgaria BUL
Central European Russia RUC
Czechia-Slovakia CZE
East European Russia RUE
France FRA
Germany GER
Hungary HUN
Italy ITA
Netherlands NET
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Poland POL
Romania ROM
Sicilia SIC
South European Russia RUS
Switzerland SWI
Ukraine UKR
Altay ALT ASIA-TEMPERATE
Krasnoyarsk KRA
North Caucasus NCS
Transcaucasus TCS
West Siberia WSB

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Flowering 107 in flower of 163 examined

Peak flowering in Jun. Each bar is the share of Fragaria moschata observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 107 of 163 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 7 months have fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for them. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Where it actually grows measured, from 2,027 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low -13.9 °C -10.8 °C -4.1 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 20.8 °C 22.8 °C 24.7 °C
Annual rainfall 560 mm 693 mm 925 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 88 mm 109 mm 155 mm

It is found where winters bring hard frost. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 2,027 research-grade observations of Fragaria moschata that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.

This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one. Climate from CHELSA V2.1 (Karger et al. 2017); occurrences from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Also published as 22 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Fragaria elatior f. altissima F.Gérard
  • Fragaria elatior var. communis Poit.
  • Fragaria elatior var. dioica (Duchesne) Ser.
  • Fragaria elatior var. magna (Thuill.) Mutel
  • Fragaria elatior var. mascula Poit.
  • Fragaria elatior var. moschata (Duchesne ex Weston) Sm.
  • Fragaria grandiflora Crantz
  • Fragaria grandiflora Chevall.
  • Fragaria magna Thuill.
  • Fragaria magna var. moschata (Duchesne ex Weston) Sm.
  • Fragaria moschata f. rubriflora Heimerl
  • Fragaria moschata subvar. rubriflora (Heimerl) Asch. & Graebn.
  • Fragaria moschata unranked dioica Duchesne
  • Fragaria muricata Mill.
  • Fragaria muricata D.H.Kent
  • Fragaria reversa Kit.
  • Fragaria vesca unranked moschata Duchesne
  • Fragaria vesca unranked moschata (Duchesne ex Weston) Desf.
  • Fragaria vesca var. elatior Ehrh. ex T.Lestib.
  • Fragaria vesca var. elatior Thuill.
  • Fragaria vesca var. magna (Thuill.) DC.
  • Potentilla moschata (Duchesne ex Weston) Prantl

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.