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Wild barren strawberry

Potentilla micrantha

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.

2 Species ID Suggestions

Wild Strawberry
Fragaria Vesca Fragaria vesca
Jopy
Jopy 10 years ago
Potentilla micrantha
Wild barren strawberry


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2 Comments

valentinezza
valentinezza 10 years ago

Thank you Jopy! You're right! :)

valentinezza
valentinezza 10 years ago

Thanks you CorduneanuVlad! I too had thought wild strawberry, especially for the leaf shape, but the flower seems different .. maybe another subspecies?

valentinezza
Spotted by
valentinezza

Voltaggio, PIE, Italy

Spotted on Apr 6, 2014
Submitted on Apr 8, 2014

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