Fragaria vescaL.

woodland strawberry

WFO wfo-0000993770 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Fragaria vesca, photographed by aga_l_
fig. a aga_l_, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-11 / obs. 205243485
Fragaria vesca, photographed by Нурхайдарова Татьяна
fig. b Нурхайдарова Татьяна, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205191145
Fragaria vesca, photographed by Светлана Царахова
fig. c Светлана Царахова, CC0 1.0 / obs. 205763532
Fragaria vesca, photographed by Нурхайдарова Татьяна
fig. d Нурхайдарова Татьяна, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205189629
Fragaria vesca, photographed by Sheelagh Halsey
fig. e Sheelagh Halsey, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205563802
Fragaria vesca, photographed by Tatiana Strus
fig. f Tatiana Strus, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205600429
Fragaria vesca, photographed by Daria
fig. g Daria, CC0 1.0 / obs. 205147700
Fragaria vesca, photographed by Paul Braun
fig. h Paul Braun, CC0 1.0 / obs. 205155780

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Confused withby our own model

These are not lookalikes we guessed at. Each one is a species our identification model genuinely mistook for this plant, and how many times. The error rate is published.

Flowering n = 6,325 observations

Peak flowering in May, from 6,325 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 152 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.

  • Dactylophyllum fragaria Spenn.
  • Fragaria abnormis Tratt.
  • Fragaria aliena Weihe
  • Fragaria alpina (Weston) Steud.
  • Fragaria americana (Porter) Britton
  • Fragaria botryformis Duchesne
  • Fragaria bracteata A.Heller
  • Fragaria californica Cham. & Schltdl.
  • Fragaria californica var. crinita (Rydb.) H.M.Hall
  • Fragaria californica var. franciscana Rydb.
  • Fragaria crinita Rydb.
  • Fragaria efflagellis Duchesne
  • Fragaria eflagellis (Weston) Duchesne ex Rozier
  • Fragaria elatior (Thuill.) Ehrh.
  • Fragaria elatior var. muricata (L.) Willd.
  • Fragaria florentina Poit. & Turpin
  • Fragaria gillmanii Clinton
  • Fragaria helleri Holz.
  • Fragaria hortensis Duchesne
  • Fragaria hortensis (Weston) Duchesne ex Rozier
  • Fragaria hortensis var. alba Duchesne
  • Fragaria insularis Rydb.
  • Fragaria mexicana Schltdl.
  • Fragaria minor Duchesne

and 128 more.

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.

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