Observations by dstaigle

Exploration of the Fragaria vesca Rosaceae

For my Inaturalist report I uploaded a wild strawberry plant, also known as a Fragaria vesca. The wild Strawberry is in the Rosaceae family. Some of the ways you can identify a wild strawberry is green leaves with three rounded leaflets and deeply serrated edges, and a ridged texture. Crosses between the diploid woodland strawberry and the octoploid garden strawberry can lead to the formation of different hybrids. However, the extent of such hybrid formation under natural conditions is unknown strawberries. The strawberry plant, is capable of living several years, and has more than one way of reproducing. One of its reproductive strategies is the sexual method. The strawberry plant can also reproduce asexual, through stems called runners. Strawberry plants can produce shoots from the main stem capable of becoming new, separate plants. A strawberry plant's main stem is called a crown. The crown produces spirals of leaves, runners, flowers and "branch crowns," are shoots that create more crowns. When days are long and warm, the plant produces runners. Runners are offshoots of the parent plant, stems growing out from the crown along the ground. I collected my wild strawberry plant in a very thick lodge pole thicket were there were many other bunch grasses, and other shrubs surrounding it. Also the soil was very rick, full of pine needles, and very moist. The wild strawberry plant has adapted by not having as many stamens, and also the scape of the plant doesn’t grow very tall, so it doesn’t get kicked over by wild life, or get blown over.
http://www.fcps.edu/islandcreekes/ecology/wild_strawberry.htm

http://skemman.is/stream/get/1946/15561/37566/1/2013_BS_Hrannar_Smari_Hilmarsson.pdf

http://www.isb.vt.edu/brarg/brasym96/sossey96.htm