Physalis arenicola |
Physalis longifolia |
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cypresshead groundcherry |
common groundcherry, ground-cherry, long leafed tomatillo, long-leaf ground-cherry, wild tomatillo |
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Habit | Herbs perennial, rhizomatous, rhizomes deeply buried, slender, typically also with shallowly buried, slender rhizomes, glabrous to villous, hairs simple, antrorse, to 1 mm, sometimes also with simple, jointed, divergent hairs, 1–2 mm, sometimes glandular. | Herbs perennial, rhizomatous, rhizomes deeply buried, stout, glabrous or sparsely strigose, hairs simple, antrorse, to 0.5 mm. | ||||||||
Stems | erect, few-branched, 0.5–3 dm. |
erect or erect to decumbent, branching frequently at distal nodes or several-branched from base, branches spreading or ascending, 1–6 dm. |
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Leaves | petiolate; petiole 1/4–2/3 blade; blade ovate to suborbiculate, 1.5–6(–6.5) × 1–5 cm, base truncate to cordate, margins entire or coarsely, irregularly dentate with few teeth. |
petiolate; petiole 1/5–2/5 blade; blade ovate to ovate-lanceolate or broadly lanceolate, 2.5–10(–13) × 0.5–6(–7) cm, base truncate to rounded, margins entire to coarsely dentate or irregularly crenate-dentate with only a few teeth. |
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Pedicels | (8–)11–17(–25) mm, 15–30(–35) mm in fruit. |
5–18 mm, 12–35 mm in fruit. |
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Flowers | calyx 6–12 mm, villous, lobes 2–5 mm; corolla yellow with 5 pale reddish-brown smudges or not, campanulate-rotate, 10–17 mm; anthers yellow, not twisted after dehiscence, 2.5–4 mm. |
calyx (5–)7–12 mm, sparsely strigose with short, antrorse hairs, lobes 3–6 mm; corolla yellow with 5 purple-brown smudges, campanulate-rotate, 10–20 mm; anthers yellow or blue-tinged, not twisted after dehiscence, 2–4 mm. |
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Fruiting calyces | loosely enclosing berry, 10-ribbed, 20–35 × 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 arenicola |
Physalis longifolia |
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Phenology | Flowering year-round in areas without frost. | |||||||||
Habitat | Sandy soil, pine-oak woods, hammocks, fields, pastures, roadsides. | |||||||||
Elevation | 0–50 m. (0–200 ft.) | |||||||||
Distribution |
AL; FL; GA; MS
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North America; n Mexico [Introduced in Australia]
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Discussion | Physalis arenicola is found throughout Florida; only a few records exist from the other states in its range. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Varieties 3 (3 in the flora). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 14. | FNA vol. 14. | ||||||||
Parent taxa | Solanaceae > Physalis | Solanaceae > Physalis | ||||||||
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Synonyms | P. arenicola var. ciliosa, P. ciliosa | |||||||||
Name authority | Kearney: Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 21: 485. (1894) | Nuttall: Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc., n. s. 5: 193. (1836) | ||||||||
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