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June: Strawberry Moon

The wild strawberries that start to ripen during early summer gave name to June’s Full Moon. Other names for this Full Moon are Rose Moon, Hot Moon, and Mead Moon.

Paddleboarders below the strawberry moon at Barceloneta beach, Barcelona, Spain.

Paddleboarders below a rising Strawberry Moon at Barceloneta beach, Barcelona, Spain.

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Strawberry Moon 2024

Jun 21, 2024 at 9:07 pm

Strawberry Moon 2025

Jun 11, 2025 at 3:43 am

Times for the Strawberry Moon vary by time zone. Times and dates are based on the local time in Washington DC. Change location

Named After Ripening Strawberries

June’s Full Moon is named after the wild strawberries that ripen this month and could be gathered by the Native American tribes. Other native names are Berries Ripen Moon, Green Corn Moon, and Hot Moon.

The Celtic names are Horse Moon, Dyan Moon, and Rose Moon. Other English names are Flower Moon and Planting Moon. Other sources quote Mead Moon as the Anglo-Saxon name because this was the time for mowing the meads, or meadows.

Close to Summer Solstice

Around every 20 years, the Strawberry Moon coincides with the summer solstice, which is either on June 20, 21, or 22.

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12 Full Moon Names

The Full Moon has been integral to tracking the change of months and seasons since ancient times.

Today, we use many of these ancient month names as Full Moon names, and many of them come from the Colonial Americans adopting Native American names into their calendars.

Although the most commonly used Full Moon names are English interpretations of Native American names, some are also Celtic, Anglo-Saxon, medieval English, and Neo-Pagan.

Wild strawberries.

The European Wild Strawberry (Fragaria Vesca) is also called Alpine Strawberry.

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Wild Strawberries

There are several different kinds of wild strawberries. The native North American type is the Virginia strawberry (Fragaria virginiana), also known as Mountain strawberry or Common strawberry. It grows naturally in the United States, including Alaska, and Canada.

Europe has its own native wild strawberry; the Alpine strawberry (Fragaria vesca), also called European strawberry, Woodland strawberry, or fraisier des bois.

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