Physalis cinerascens |
Physalis lanceolata |
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smallflower groundcherry |
sword groundcherry |
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Habit | Herbs perennial, rhizomatous, rhizomes deeply buried, stout, sparsely to ± densely pubescent, hairs dendroid-stelliform, to 1 mm. | Herbs perennial, rhizomatous, rhizomes stout, sparsely pubescent, hairs simple, antrorse, to 0.5 mm, or simple, jointed, divergent, 1–1.5 mm. | ||||
Stems | erect to decumbent, branching at most nodes, proximal branches spreading and decumbent, 0.5–5 dm. |
decumbent or weakly ascending, infrequently branching, branches spreading and decumbent or parallel to ground, 2–4 dm. |
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Leaves | sessile or petiolate; petiole 1/5 to as long as blade; blade orbiculate to broadly ovate or elliptic to spatulate, 1.5–8(–9) × 1–6(–8) cm, base truncate to attenuate, margins coarsely dentate, sinuate, or entire. |
petiolate; petiole 1/25–1/3 blade; blade oblanceolate, 4–10 × 2–6 cm, base attenuate, margins entire to slightly sinuate. |
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Pedicels | 10–33 mm, 15–60 mm in fruit. |
10–20 mm, 10–30 mm in fruit. |
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Flowers | calyx (3.5–)5–9 mm, lobes 1.5–4 mm; corolla yellow with 5 dark purple-black spots, campanulate-rotate, (8–)10–16 mm; anthers yellow, rarely purple-tinged, not twisted after dehiscence, 2–5 mm. |
calyx 6–10 mm, hispid, lobes 2–5 mm; corolla yellow with 5 pale brown smudges, campanulate-rotate, 10–15 mm; anthers yellow, not twisted after dehiscence, 2.5–3.5 mm. |
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Fruiting calyces | loosely enclosing berry, 10-ribbed, 15–35(–45) × 10–35 mm. |
loosely enclosing to nearly filled by berry, 10-ribbed, 20–35 × 15–30 mm. |
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2n | = 24. |
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Physalis cinerascens |
Physalis lanceolata |
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Phenology | Flowering Apr–Sep. | |||||
Habitat | Dry to xeric pine-oak-grass communities of the Sandhills Region. | |||||
Elevation | 100–200 m. (300–700 ft.) | |||||
Distribution |
c United States; sc United States; Mexico
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GA; NC; SC |
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Discussion | Varieties 2 (2 in the flora). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Physalis lanceolata occurs as populations of 1 to 20 plants scattered within suitable habit, notably where fire management is practiced. W. F. Hinton (1970, 1976) showed that P. lanceolata is not a hybrid and that the name had been misapplied to plants of the Great Plains. (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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Synonyms | P. pensylvanica var. cinerascens, P. viscosa var. cinerascens | |||||
Name authority | (Dunal) Hitchcock: Key Spring Fl. Manhattan, 32. (1894) | Michaux: Fl. Bor.-Amer. 1: 149. (1803) | ||||
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