| Fragaria chiloensis subsp. pacifica Staudt | |||
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| Family | Rosaceae — APG family: Rosaceae | ||
| Common name | beach strawberry | ||
| Description | Plant with stout rhizome and long, brown stolons; leaves thick, coriaceous; leaf- lets petiolated, broadly obovate to cuneate-obovate, crenate-dentate, dark green and shiny above, silky-pubescent beneath; petioles and peduncles with long, silky, spreading hairs; calyx lobes silky-pubescent, lanceolate; petals 5, white, obovate- orbicular; fruit pilose, palatable, makes an excellent jam. | ||
| Ecology | Coastal strands. F. chiloensis described from cultivated specimens. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Other subspecies occur in Hawaii and South America. Hybrids with cultivated strawberries also occur. |
This is a digital representation of Eric Hultén’s ‘Flora of Alaska and Neighboring Territories: A Manual of the Vascular Plants’, which was published by Stanford University Press in 1968. The book was digitized by C. Webb (at UAMN) as part of the Flora of Alaska project, with funding by the US NSF (Grant 1759964 to Ickert-Bond & Webb), and with permission of Stanford University Press. Data and images © 1968 Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Jr. Univ. Usage licence: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0. NB: You may find OCR errors; please refer to the hard-copy if in doubt.