Physalis angulata Linnaeus. Common name: Smooth Ground-cherry. Phenology: Jun-Oct (-May). Habitat: Longleaf pine sandhills, disturbed areas, open woodlands, agricultural fields. Distribution: Widely distributed in tropical America, north to se. VA and MO, and scattered as an adventive farther north.
Origin/Endemic status: Native
Synonymy ⓘ: = Ar, Bah, C, Fl6, FNA14, K4, Mex, Mo3, NcTx, NE, RAB, S, Tat, Va, WH3, Sullivan (2004); > Physalis angulata L. — F, G, Il; > Physalis angulata L. var. angulata — GrPl, Tn, Tx; > Physalis angulata L. var. pendula (Rydb.) Waterf. — GrPl, Tn, Tx; > Physalis pendula Rydb. — F, G, Il; Physalis angulata L. Basionym: Physalis angulata L. 1753
Links to other floras: = Physalis angulata - FNA14
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Wetland Indicator Status:
- Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain: FACU
- Eastern Mountains and Piedmont: FAC
- Great Plains: FAC
- Midwest: FAC
- Northcentral & Northeast: FAC
Heliophily ⓘ: 9
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Horticultural Information
Intro: Erect-spreading annual of disturbed areas, open woodlands and agricultural fields.
Stems: Stems highly branched and usually smooth or with a few short hairs pressed against the younger parts.
Leaves: Leaves alternate, petiolate, oval to lance-shaped, 1 1/2-4 in. long, usually irregularly and coarsely toothed and smooth.
Inforescence:
Flowers: Flowers solitary on stalks from leaf axils, yellow with slightly darkened center, about 1/2 in. wide, broadly funnel-shaped with 5 triangular-tipped lobes and 5 fused, smooth to slightly hairy sepals; 5 stamens with bluish anthers are visible.
Fruits: Fruit a yellow, round berry enclosed by a 10-angled, purple-veined, expanded calyx, which matures to a papery husk.
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Height: 8-36 in.
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description: Erect-spreading annual of disturbed areas, open woodlands and agricultural fields.
stems: Stems highly branched and usually smooth or with a few short hairs pressed against the younger parts.
leaves: Leaves alternate, petiolate, oval to lance-shaped, 1 1/2-4 in. long, usually irregularly and coarsely toothed and smooth.
inflorescence:
flowers: Flowers solitary on stalks from leaf axils, yellow with slightly darkened center, about 1/2 in. wide, broadly funnel-shaped with 5 triangular-tipped lobes and 5 fused, smooth to slightly hairy sepals; 5 stamens with bluish anthers are visible.
fruits: Fruit a yellow, round berry enclosed by a 10-angled, purple-veined, expanded calyx, which matures to a papery husk.
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