Fragaria gracilis Losinsk.

Herbs perennial, 5–20 cm tall. Stems slender, appressed pilose. Leaf blade 3-foliolate or pinnately 5-foliolate; leaflets sessile or terminal one shortly petiolulate, elliptic, long elliptic, or obovate-elliptic, 1.5–5 × 0.8–3 cm, abaxially appressed pubescent with hairs dense and long on veins, adaxially pilose, base cuneate or oblique, margin incised serrate, apex rounded or acute. Inflorescence corymbiform, 1–3(or 4)-flowered. Flowers 1–2 cm in diam.; pedicel appressed pubescent. Sepals ovate-lanceolate, apex caudate; epicalyx segments linear-lanceolate or linear, equaling sepals, margin entire or lobed. Petals suborbicular, base tapering into a short claw. Stamens ca. 20, unequal. Aggregate fruit globose or ellipsoid; persistent sepals markedly reflexed. Achenes ovoid, glabrous, inconspicuously rugose at base. Fl. Apr–Jul, fr. Jun–Aug.

It is native to north western China. It grows in meadows on mountain slopes between 1,600-3,900 m above sea level. In Sichuan and Yunnan.