Physalis angustifolia |
Physalis pumila |
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coastal groundcherry |
dwarf groundcherry |
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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. | Herbs perennial, rhizomatous, rhizomes deeply buried, stout, hispid, hairs simple or 2- or 3-branched, divergent and antrorse, jointed, 0.5–2 mm. | ||||
Stems | erect to decumbent, branching at most nodes, proximal branches spreading and decumbent, 0.5–1.5(–2.5) dm. |
erect to decumbent, branching at most nodes or infrequently and only at distal nodes, branches ascending, 1.5–4 dm. |
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Leaves | sessile; blade linear-lanceolate, sometimes folded along midrib, 2.5–9 × 0.2–0.8(–1) cm, base tapering to stem, margins entire. |
petiolate; petiole 1/10–2/5 blade; blade elliptic-ovate to ovate-lanceolate, 3–8(–10) × 2–4(–5) cm, base rounded to attenuate and narrowing to petiole, margins entire to sinuate, rarely shallowly, irregularly sinuate-dentate. |
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Pedicels | 14–21 mm, 15–35(–42) mm in fruit. |
hispid, 8–46 mm, 15–55 mm in fruit. |
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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. |
calyx 6–12 mm, lobes 2.5–6 mm; corolla yellow with pale brown, ochre, or green tinge or smudges, campanulate-rotate, 9–17 mm; anthers yellow, rarely blue-tinged, not twisted after dehiscence, 1–3 mm. |
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Fruiting calyces | orange drying brown, loosely enclosing berry, 10-ribbed, (15–)20–30(–40) × 15–25 mm. |
loosely enclosing berry, 10-ribbed, 20–40 × 15–30 mm. |
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2n | = 24. |
= 24. |
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Physalis angustifolia |
Physalis pumila |
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Phenology | Flowering year-round in areas without frost. | |||||
Habitat | Sand, beach dunes, disturbed coastal areas in sand. | |||||
Elevation | 0 m. (0 ft.) | |||||
Distribution |
AL; FL; LA; MS
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c United States; sc United States
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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.) |
Varieties 2 (2 in the flora). Varieties hispida and pumila are quite distinctive in the field but are often difficult to distinguish in the herbarium. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Key |
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Source | FNA vol. 14. | FNA vol. 14. | ||||
Parent taxa | Solanaceae > Physalis | Solanaceae > Physalis | ||||
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Name authority | Nuttall: J. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 7: 113. (1834) | Nuttall: Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc., n. s. 5: 193. (1836) | ||||
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