Fragaria orientalisLosinsk.

WFO wfo-0000984774 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Fragaria orientalis, photographed by Nina Filippova
fig. a Nina Filippova, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-08-29 / obs. 153902904
Fragaria orientalis, photographed by Repina Tatyana
fig. b Repina Tatyana, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 67022358
Fragaria orientalis, photographed by Repina Tatyana
fig. c Repina Tatyana, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 54604776
Fragaria orientalis, photographed by Repina Tatyana
fig. d Repina Tatyana, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 112414441
Fragaria orientalis, photographed by Repina Tatyana
fig. e Repina Tatyana, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 42864068
Fragaria orientalis, photographed by Repina Tatyana
fig. f Repina Tatyana, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 38651969
Fragaria orientalis, photographed by Ochirnima Nimaev
fig. g Ochirnima Nimaev, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 111944636
Fragaria orientalis, photographed by Ochirnima Nimaev
fig. h Ochirnima Nimaev, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 111949408

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Native range 12 botanical countries

Regions where Fragaria orientalis is native: Amur, Buryatiya, China North-Central, Chita, Inner Mongolia, Irkutsk, Khabarovsk, Krasnoyarsk, Manchuria, Mongolia, Primorye, Yakutiya AmurBuryatiyaChina North-CentralChitaInner MongoliaIrkutskKhabarovskKrasnoyarskManchuriaMongoliaPrimoryeYakutiya
Native distribution of Fragaria orientalis, 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
Amur AMU ASIA-TEMPERATE
Buryatiya BRY
China North-Central CHN
Chita CTA
Inner Mongolia CHI
Irkutsk IRK
Khabarovsk KHA
Krasnoyarsk KRA
Manchuria CHM
Mongolia MON
Primorye PRM
Yakutiya YAK

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.

Where it actually grows measured, from 344 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low -30.6 °C -26.3 °C -14.1 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 18.6 °C 22.3 °C 25.0 °C
Annual rainfall 293 mm 446 mm 939 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 8 mm 16 mm 57 mm

It is found where winters are arctic. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 344 research-grade observations of Fragaria orientalis 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.

Also published as 10 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 concolor Kitag.
  • Fragaria nipponica var. orientalis (Losinsk.) Y.N.Lee
  • Fragaria orientalis f. oblonga Skvortsov
  • Fragaria orientalis f. padulosa Skvortsov
  • Fragaria orientalis f. plena Popov
  • Fragaria orientalis f. rotunda Skvortsov
  • Fragaria orientalis f. typica Skvortsov
  • Fragaria orientalis var. concolor (Kitag.) Liou & C.Y.Li
  • Fragaria orientalis var. micrantha Popov ex Belozor
  • Fragaria uniflora Losinsk.

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. 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.