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| Solanaceae | Physalis acutifolia | | Disturbed areas. | Native of sw. United States south into Mexico. Collected once in NC (in 1936), from a nursery in Mecklenburg County, NC, in MS (Sullivan 2004), and in nw. GA (the basis of the report of P. missouriensis in Jones & Coile 1988). It may not be established. | |
| Solanaceae | Physalis angulata | Smooth Ground-cherry | Longleaf pine sandhills, disturbed areas, open woodlands, agricultural fields. | Widely distributed in tropical America, north to se. VA and MO, and scattered as an adventive farther north. | 
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| Solanaceae | Physalis angustifolia | Coastal Ground-cherry | Maritime dunes and coastal sands, longleaf pine sandhills. | Gulf Coast shorelines from S. FL west to s. LA. Reports of P. viscosa from the Southeast are based on either P. angustifolia or P. walteri. | |
| Solanaceae | Physalis arenicola | Sandhill Ground-cherry | Longleaf pine sandhills, pine flatwoods. | GA, AL, and s. MS south to s. FL. Reported from nc. GA by Jones & Coile (1988) and for "cypress-heads and scrub thickets" by GANHP. | 
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| Solanaceae | Physalis cinerascens var. cinerascens | Smallflower Ground-cherry | Dry areas. | AR, KS, and NM south to w. LA, TX, and Mexico; native distribution limits are uncertain. | 
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| Solanaceae | Physalis cinerascens var. variovestita | | Open sands, other dry habitats. | Endemic to e. TX. | |
| Solanaceae | Physalis cordata | Toothleaf Ground-cherry | Disturbed areas | Native distribution is uncertain; this species is scattered in the Southeastern United States, south to s. FL, and is more widespread in Mexico, Central America, and West Indies. | 
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| Solanaceae | Physalis elliottii var. elliottii | | | | |
| Solanaceae | Physalis elliottii var. glabra | | | | |
| Solanaceae | Physalis grisea | Gray Ground-cherry, Strawberry-tomato, Dwarf Cape-gooseberry | Wooded slopes, disturbed areas. | The species is mainly distributed in ne. United States, south (mainly) to NC, TN, and MO, and scattered farther south. | 
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| Solanaceae | Physalis hederifolia | Ivy-leaf Ground-cherry | Sandy or rocky prairies, stream valleys. | W. SD and s. MT south to e. OK, s. TX, NM, AZ, s. NV, s. CA, and s. Mexico. Not present in LA (Pyne (2018). | |
| Solanaceae | Physalis heterophylla | Clammy Ground-cherry | Disturbed areas, prairies, stream valleys, dry rocky woodlands, hammocks. | Widespread in e. and c. United States and adjacent Canada, south to ne. FL and Panhandle FL. | 
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| Solanaceae | Physalis lanceolata | Sandhill Ground-cherry | Longleaf pine sandhills. | Endemic to sandhill habitats of (primarily) sc. and (rarely) se. NC (northern limit in Lee, Wayne, and New Hanover counties), south through SC to just over the Savannah River in Richmond County, GA | 
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| Solanaceae | Physalis longifolia var. longifolia | Longleaf Ground-cherry | Bottomlands, other forests, prairies, woodlands, disturbed areas. | IL, IA, ND, MT, and ID south to MS, LA, TX, NM, AZ, and Mexico. | 
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| Solanaceae | Physalis longifolia var. subglabrata | Longleaf Ground-cherry | Open woodlands, gardens and disturbed areas. | The species is widespread in e. and c. United States; var. subglabrata is more eastern, south to Panhandle FL, var. longifolia more western. | 
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| Solanaceae | Physalis longifolia var. texana | Texas Ground-cherry | | C. and s. TX. | |
| Solanaceae | Physalis macrosperma | | | | |
| Solanaceae | Physalis minima | Pygmy Ground-cherry | Disturbed areas. | Native of the Neotropics. Reported for St. Tammany, Pointe Coupee, West Baton Rouge, and Lafayette parishes, LA (Kartesz 2015) | |
| Solanaceae | Physalis missouriensis | Missouri Ground-cherry | Streambanks, glades, dolomite cliff lines, dry woodlands. | KS and c. MO south to n. AR and e. and nc. OK. | |
| Solanaceae | Physalis mollis | | Prairies, roadsides, disturbed areas. | Reported for Sumter County, AL. | |
| Solanaceae | Physalis peruviana | Cape Gooseberry, Po'ha | Cultivated, rarely escaped or persistent. | Native of South America. It is now cultivated for its edible fruit in various tropical and temperate areas, and is known to rarely persist in e. North America. | |
| Solanaceae | Physalis philadelphica | Tomatillo | Naturalized after cultivation. | Native of Mexico and Central America. | 
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| Solanaceae | Physalis pubescens | Downy Ground-cherry, Husk-tomato | Disturbed areas. | Widespread in the American tropics, north to PA and IA. | 
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| Solanaceae | Physalis pumila var. hispida | Western Dwarf Ground-cherry | Plains, in sandy prairies. | NE and WY south to se. OK, n. TX. | |
| Solanaceae | Physalis pumila var. pumila | Prairie Ground-cherry | Glades, upland prairies, disturbed areas. | MO and NE south to w. LA and e. TX. | 
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| Solanaceae | Physalis spathulifolia | Yellow Ground-cherry | Dunes (especially backdunes), coastal prairies. | Sw. LA south through coastal TX to ne. Mexico. | |
| Solanaceae | Physalis virginiana | Virginia Ground-cherry | Woodlands, glades, barrens, and disturbed areas. | This complex species is widespread in e. and c. North America. | 
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| Solanaceae | Physalis viscosa | Clammy Ground-cherry | | | |
| Solanaceae | Physalis walteri | Dune Ground-cherry, Tomatilla de Suelo, Walter's Ground-cherry, Dune Ground-cherry | Dunes of sea-beaches, openings in maritime forests, longleaf pine sandhills (southward), and rarely inland as a waif in disturbed areas. | Se. VA south to s. FL and west to s. MS. | 
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