Virginia Strawberry

Fragaria australis Rydberg
Fragaria virginiana australis Rydb. Mem. Dep. Bot. Columbia Univ. 2 ; 180. 1898.
Perennial, with a short but not thick rootstock; leaves moderately thick, green on both sides but slightly paler beneath ; petioles 2-6 cm. long, silky with spreading hairs ; leaflets elliptic-oblanceolate to obovate, 1-4 cm. long, subsessile, with small broadly ovate teeth, obtuse ; scape 2-6 cm. high, silky with ascending or slightly spreading hairs ; pedicels appressed-hairy ; bractlets linear-lanceolate, 3-4 mm. long, somewhat shorter than the lanceolate sepals ; petals oval, 5-8 mm. long; fruit unknown.
Type locality : Not given in the original description, but the type in the Columbia University herbarium was collected at the falls of the Yadkin River, Stanley County, North Carolina, in 1896,
John K. Small. # -----,* ,-
Distribution : Virginia and North Carolina.