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Fragaria cascadensis
Fragaria cascadensis is a wild perennial strawberry from the Oregon Cascades, described in 2012 and not yet in cultivation. It grows in forest clearings and alpine meadows, so it needs cool summers and good drainage to thrive.
Fragaria cascadensis is a species of strawberry found in the Cascades Mountains described in 2012. The vernacular name Cascade strawberry was suggested by the describing author.
This species is not yet in cultivation. Although this species is a decaploid, unlike the octoploid common strawberry, it can be hybridized with Fragaria iturupensis, Fragaria × vescana. Fragaria × Comarum hybrids or Fragaria × bringhurstii should produce fertile offspring (although with chromosome doubling), which may reveal new flavors or genetic disease resistance.
F. cascadensis grows along the western slopes of the Oregon Cascades Mountains from the Columbia River south to Crater Lake, at elevations of about 3,000 feet up to tree line. It grows in sandy-clay loam soil of volcanic origin located in forest clearings and open alpine meadows.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Fragaria cascadensis by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
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