Woodland Strawberry

Fragaria vesca

Bird foodPollinator plant

Growing it

When	Flowers May to June; fruits June to August
Type	groundcover
Sun	Partial shade, full shade
Water	Low, medium
Soil	pH 5.5–7
Hardiness	zone 3–7
Mature height	0.15 m
Mature spread	0.45 m
Spacing	0.3 m
Years to maturity	1
Bloom	May–Jun
Flower colour	White not verified, a genus-level estimate
In bloom	May June
Fruit	Jun–Aug
Native to	AB

leaves in threes about 4 cm long

Where it has been recorded

BothSpecimensObservations

95 squares of about 28 km, each holding at least one record. A square is not a claim that the plant grows throughout it, and an unshaded square is unrecorded rather than empty. Darker squares hold more records, which follows roads and towns as much as it follows the plant. 27 herbarium specimens and 209 field observations this project may redraw. A filled dot is a pressed sheet somebody can re-examine; a hollow ring is a photograph identified by community agreement. Where the dots are dense is where people have looked, not where the plant is commonest, and empty ground is unsurveyed rather than unoccupied. How this map is made.

Which ecoregions the records fall in

Aspen Parkland central AB / SK: 262 records, high confidence
Mid-Boreal Uplands central AB / SK: 68 records, high confidence
Boreal Transition central AB / SK: 45 records, high confidence
Northern Continental Divide south AB: 9 records, medium confidence
Eastern Continental Ranges central AB: 8 records, medium confidence
Western Alberta Upland central AB: 7 records, low confidence
Wabasca Lowland north AB: 5 records, low confidence
Western Boreal central AB: 4 records, low confidence

These are counts of records collected somewhere in the region, which is the resolution of the evidence: the map above shows where inside it. A region with 3 records is not the same claim as one with three hundred, so the count travels with the region. A region missing from this list means nobody has recorded it there, which is not the same as the plant being absent. Records within 900 m of a border count for neither side, because the border is not drawn finely enough to say which one they are on. Source: GBIF occurrence search + PRESERVED_SPECIMEN pass, retrieved 2026-08-24. Boundaries digitised from the National Ecological Framework for Canada v2.2 (Ecological Stratification Working Group 1995), simplified to about 900 m for display: an outline is accurate to roughly a kilometre, not to the metre. How these counts are made.

See every observation, live and current, on GBIF or iNaturalist.

Documented animals

35 documented relationships.

nectar for

American Lady Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Andrena melanochroa Specimen records from ecdysis.org
Andrena milwaukeensis Specimen records from ecdysis.org
Andrena thaspii Specimen records from ecdysis.org
Black-tailed Bumble Bee Specimen records from www.bumblebeewatch.org
Boloria epithore Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Brown-tailed Bumble Bee Specimen records from www.bumblebeewatch.org
Eastern Pine Elfin Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Eupeodes volucris Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Evodinus monticola Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Half-black Bumble Bee Specimen records from www.bumblebeewatch.org
Halictus confusus Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Indiscriminate Cuckoo Bumble Bee Specimen records from www.bumblebeewatch.org
Large Bee Fly Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Lasioglossum inconditum Specimen records from ecdysis.org
Lasioglossum nevadense Specimen records from ecdysis.org
Lasioglossum ruidosense Specimen records from ecdysis.org
Northern Azure Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Orange-legged Furrow Bee Specimen records from ecdysis.org
Osmia exigua Specimen records from ecdysis.org
Osmia juxta Specimen records from ecdysis.org
Osmia pentstemonis Specimen records from ecdysis.org
Osmia proxima Specimen records from ecdysis.org
Osmia tristella Specimen records from ecdysis.org
Panurginus atriceps Specimen records from ecdysis.org
Red-belted Bumble Bee Specimen records from www.bumblebeewatch.org
Scopula junctaria Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Silvery Blue Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Sphaerophoria contigua Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Syrphus opinator Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Two-ranked Bumble Bee Specimen records from www.bumblebeewatch.org
Yellow-fronted Bumble Bee Specimen records from www.bumblebeewatch.org

pollen for

Black-tailed Bumble Bee Clements & F. L. Long 1923
Hoplitis fulgida Clements & F. L. Long 1923

fruit for

American Robin Specimen records from iNaturalist.org

Also worth knowing

Safety

Toxicity not assessed, absence of a warning is not a guarantee of safety

Edible parts

Fruit, leaves

Buying it

About $8–$16 per plant (estimate), usually from a native-plant nursery. Estimate (groundcover default); AB retail as of 2026

Where these numbers came from

Flower detail: not verified, a genus-level estimate