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Fraisier sauvage de Virginie
Fragaria virginiana
Un couvre-sol vivace indigène de l'est de l'Amérique du Nord, à faible développement, produisant de petites fraises rouge vif à la saveur intense en début d'été, et des fleurs blanches à cinq pétales au printemps. Parent génétique (avec F. chiloensis) du fraisier cultivé moderne (F. ×ananassa). Les fruits sont plus petits que ceux des variétés cultivées, mais d'une saveur exceptionnelle. Se propage par stolons ; forme un excellent couvre-sol comestible sous les arbres fruitiers.
Native: 38 US states + 10 CA provinces
Climate fit: broad (83/100)
Edible
Filler
Pollinator
Light
Full sun / Part shade
Water
Moderate water
Mature size
4-8" tall · 12" apart
Hardy in zones
3a-8b
brutally cold to frosty winters
AHS heat range
1-11
Plant range authored in AHS heat-zone terms.
Native in Illinois
Yes
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Native across 48 US states and Canadian provinces — a wide-ranging part of North America's plant communities.
Cold hardiness
Future
These values are location-based: this location's current hardiness is the baseline, and the 2050 value is a projected future climate for this same location.
Now
Zone 6b
USDA
Published baseline for this location from 1991-2020.
Source: USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map 2023 (1991-2020 climatology) via ArcGIS FeatureServer
Well-suited
2050
Zone 7a
Plotwright
Projected zone for this same location in 2050 (2041-2070) using SSP3-7.0 (regional rivalry).
Well-suited
In plain terms: This location is in Zone 6b today. Its hardiness profile is cold winters, and coldest nights are typically around -3°F. By 2050, the projected hardiness zone is Zone 7a based on SSP3-7.0 (regional rivalry). That is a +0.5-zone shift from Zone 6b to Zone 7a by 2050.
✓
Well-suited today and still thriving in 2050.
Heat tolerance
Future
Heat tolerance values are location-based too: heat days today are observed at this site, and the 2050 value projects this same location under a future climate.
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Where this plant fits
Suitable across 40 ecoregions — 35 climate-resilient through 2070 · 5 suited today. Best matches first.
Appalachian mixed mesophytic forests
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Appalachian-Blue Ridge forests
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Arizona Mountains forests
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Blue Mountains forests
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Canadian Aspen forests and parklands
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Central Pacific Northwest coastal forests
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Central Tallgrass prairie
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Central-Southern Cascades Forests
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Colorado Rockies forests
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Cross-Timbers savanna-woodland
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Appears in collections
Collection · 8 plantes
Food-forest layered edible
A vertically stacked edible polyculture: nut-bearing canopy, fruit-bearing understory, berry shrub layer, herbaceous layer, and groundcover for temperate eastern North America.
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Plotwright. (2026, May 17). Fraisier sauvage de Virginie (Fragaria virginiana). Retrieved 2026, June 14, from https://plotwright.garden/plants/fragaria-virginiana
Sources for every fact
Every fact on this page traces to a source. 18 fields cited - 18 source-backed.
NC State Extension Gardener Plant Toolbox
University extension service
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