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Solanaceae
Physalis

not marked as a favorite taxon 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.

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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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image #1 of Physalis angulata© Richard & Teresa Ware CC-BY-NC, permission granted to NCBG | Original Image ⭷
image #2 of Physalis angulata© Aidan Campos source | Original Image ⭷
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image #6 of Physalis angulata© Jennifer Stanley | Original Image ⭷
image #7 of Physalis angulata© Aidan Campos source | Original Image ⭷
image #8 of Physalis angulata© Radford, Ahles and Bell | Original Image ⭷

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Horticultural Information

NCBG trait

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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