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Wild barren strawberry

Potentilla micrantha

Photo by valentinezza
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Field Notes

Description:

delicate white wild flower, with petals heart shaped.
Herbaceous perennial up to 5 cm high, short stems. Basal petiolate leaves, composed of 3 toothed ovate leaflets. Flowers with 5 white ovate petals, shorter than the sepals. It blooms from January to May.

Habitat:

it lives in the copses along the trails, up to 1,500 m.

Reference Links:

Potentilla micrantha Ramond ex DC. (Cinquefoglia fragola-secca) - Comune di Pon…

Species ID Suggestions

Wild Strawberry

Fragaria Vesca

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CorduneanuVlad
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Potentilla micrantha

Wild barren strawberry
Jopy
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Comments (2)
valentinezza
Thanks you CorduneanuVlad! I too had thought wild strawberry, especially for the leaf shape, but the flower seems different .. maybe another subspecies?

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Flowers of Europe
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Italy's flora and fauna
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PublishedApril 8, 2014

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