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Physalis heterophylla Nees. Clammy Ground-cherry. Phen: May-Sep; Jul-Sep. Hab: Disturbed areas, prairies, stream valleys, dry rocky woodlands, hammocks. Dist: Widespread in e. and c. United States and adjacent Canada, south to ne. FL and Panhandle FL.

Origin/Endemic status: Native

Synonymy ⓘ: = Ar, C, Fl6, FNA14, GrPl, K3, K4, Mi, NcTx, NY, Pa, RAB, Tat, Tn, Va, W, WH3, Sullivan (2004); > Physalis ambigua (A.Gray) Britton – S; > Physalis heterophylla Nees – S; > Physalis heterophylla Nees var. ambigua (A.Gray) Rydb. – F, G, Il; > Physalis heterophylla Nees var. clavipes Fernald – F; > Physalis heterophylla Nees var. heterophylla – F, G, Il, K1, NE, Tx; > Physalis heterophylla Nees var. nyctaginea (Dunal) Rydb. – F, Il; > Physalis heterophylla Nees var. villosa Waterf. – Tx; > Physalis nyctaginea Dunal – S

Links to other floras: = Physalis heterophylla - FNA14

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Horticultural Information

NCBG trait

Intro: Erect to reclining perennial of disturbed areas, dry rocky woodlands and hammocks.

Stems: Stems widely branched, covered with sticky-glandular hairs mixed with nonglandular hairs.

Leaves: Leaves alternate, petiolate, oval or triangular, 1-5 in. long, coarsely and irregularly toothed and densely hairy and sticky.

Inforescence:

Flowers: Flowers solitary; drooping from leaf axils and divergent stems; yellow with brownish or purplish centers; funnel-shaped with 5 very shallow lobes, 5 fused hairy sepals with triangular tips and 5 stamens with yellow (rarely bluish) anthers.

Fruits: Fruit a yellow round berry loosely enclosed by a veined, expanded calyx, which matures to a papery husk.

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Height: 8-35 in.

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description: Erect to reclining perennial of disturbed areas, dry rocky woodlands and hammocks.

stems: Stems widely branched, covered with sticky-glandular hairs mixed with nonglandular hairs.

leaves: Leaves alternate, petiolate, oval or triangular, 1-5 in. long, coarsely and irregularly toothed and densely hairy and sticky.

inflorescence:

flowers: Flowers solitary; drooping from leaf axils and divergent stems; yellow with brownish or purplish centers; funnel-shaped with 5 very shallow lobes, 5 fused hairy sepals with triangular tips and 5 stamens with yellow (rarely bluish) anthers.

fruits: Fruit a yellow round berry loosely enclosed by a veined, expanded calyx, which matures to a papery husk.

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