Flora of North America species comparison

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Physalis angustifolia

coastal groundcherry
Habit Herbs perennial, rhizomatous, rhizomes deeply buried, often also with slender, shallow rhizomes, glabrous except for sparse dendroid-stelliform hairs to 1 mm on leaf margins and calyx.
Stems

erect to decumbent, branching at most nodes, proximal branches spreading and decumbent, 0.5–1.5(–2.5) dm.
Leaves

sessile;

blade linear-lanceolate, sometimes folded along midrib, 2.5–9 × 0.2–0.8(–1) cm, base tapering to stem, margins entire.
Pedicels

14–21 mm, 15–35(–42) mm in fruit.
Flowers

calyx 6–8 mm, lobes (2–)3–4 mm;

corolla yellow with 5 ochre smudges, campanulate-rotate, (8–)11–15 mm;

anthers yellow, not twisted after dehiscence, 2–2.5 mm.
Fruiting calyces

orange drying brown, loosely enclosing berry, 10-ribbed, (15–)20–30(–40) × 15–25 mm.
2n

= 24.

Physalis angustifolia
Phenology Flowering year-round in areas without frost.
Habitat Sand, beach dunes, disturbed coastal areas in sand.
Elevation 0 m. (0 ft.)
Distribution
from FNA
AL; FL; LA; MS
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Discussion

In Florida, plants occur along the panhandle east to Franklin County. Narrow-leaved plants of Physalis × elliottii var. glabra occurring in peninsular Florida are sometimes mistakenly keyed to P. augustifolia (J. R. Sullivan 1985, 2013).

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 14.
Parent taxa Solanaceae > Physalis
Sibling taxa
P. acutifolia, P. angulata, P. arenicola, P. caudella, P. cinerascens, P. cordata, P. crassifolia, P. fendleri, P. grisea, P. hederifolia, P. heterophylla, P. lanceolata, P. longifolia, P. missouriensis, P. mollis, P. neomexicana, P. philadelphica, P. pubescens, P. pumila, P. solanacea, P. virginiana, P. walteri, P. ×elliottii
Name authority Nuttall: J. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 7: 113. (1834)
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