Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Fragaria grayana Vilmorin ; Gay, Ann. Sci. Nat. IV
8: 202. 1857.
Fragaria virginiana illinoensis A. Gray, Man. ed. 5. 155. 1867.
Fragaria virginiana Grayana Rydb. Mem. Dep. Bot. Columbia Univ. 2 : 180. 1898.
Rootstock short and strong ; leaves rather firm, sparingly silky-strigose and green on both sides ; petioles 5-20 cm. long, rather densely hirsute with spreading or reflexed hairs; leaflets evidently stalked, obovate, 3-10 cm. long, coarsely serrate with ovate teeth, acute or obtuse; scape many-flowered, usually 1-1.5 dm. high, densely hirsute with spreading or reflexed hairs ; pedicels also with spreading hairs ; bractlets linear-lanceolate, 5-6 mm. long, about equaling the lanceolate sepals ; petals nearly orbicular, 5-7 mm. long ; fruit subglobose, about 1.5 cm. in diameter; achenes set in pits.
Type locality : Described from cultivated specimens said to be from western New York. Distribution : From Indiana to Missouri, Louisiana, and Alabama.
- bibliographic citation
- Per Axel Rydberg. 1908. ROSACEAE (pars). North American flora. vol 22(4). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
