A group of about 20 related plants in
🌹︎ rose family Rosaceae
(in
🍎︎ apple / 🍇︎ berry / buckthorn / elm / hemp / 🌹︎ rose order Rosales
), including species
🍓︎ wild strawberry Fragaria virginiana
and
🍓︎ garden strawberry Fragaria × ananassa.
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Despite its common name, botanically, its fruit is not a berry, but an "aggregate accessory".
Different species are native 🌍︎🌎︎🌏︎ worldwide, mostly in north temperate regions: North America and Eurasia.
🗺 Map (🇨🇦 Canada, 🇺🇸 USA),
🗺 map by county (🇺🇸 USA-48)
(color key).
The fruit of Fragaria × ananassa is the 🏛[🍎︎🍒︎🍐︎🍇︎🍓︎] state fruit of Delaware, Louisiana and Oklahoma, and the 🏛🍇︎ state red berry of North Carolina.
Uses by native peoples
(Ethnobotany database)
Fragaria hosts caterpillars of 82 species
of butterflies and moths, in some areas.
Uses by butterflies,
planting info
Bloom dates. 
(page 58)
Bloom dates (Michigan). (page 4)