Physalis cinerascens |
Physalis mollis |
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smallflower groundcherry |
field 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 deeply buried, stout, often also with shallowly buried, slender rhizomes, densely pubescent, hairs dendroid-stelliform, to 1 mm, obscuring plant surface on younger growth, occasionally also jointed, branched or simple, 2–4 mm, glandular or eglandular. | ||||||||
Stems | erect to decumbent, branching at most nodes, proximal branches spreading and decumbent, 0.5–5 dm. |
erect, branching occasionally, branches ascending, 1.5–5 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 1/3–4/5 blade; blade ovate, 2.5–7 × 1.5–6(–7) cm, base truncate, margins coarsely dentate or irregular to ± entire. |
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Pedicels | 10–33 mm, 15–60 mm in fruit. |
10–25(–35) mm, 20–40(–52) 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(–12) mm, lobes 2.5–5.5 mm; corolla yellow with 5 pale to dark brown smudges or dark purple-black spots, campanulate-rotate, 9.5–15(–17) mm; anthers yellow, rarely blue- or purple-tinged, not twisted after dehiscence, 3–4 mm. |
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Fruiting calyces | loosely enclosing berry, 10-ribbed, 15–35(–45) × 10–35 mm. |
loosely enclosing berry, 10-ribbed, 25–40(–50) × 15–35 mm. |
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Physalis cinerascens |
Physalis mollis |
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Distribution |
c United States; sc United States; Mexico
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sc United States
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Discussion | Varieties 2 (2 in the flora). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Varieties 2 (2 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. pensylvanica var. cinerascens, P. viscosa var. cinerascens | P. viscosa subsp. mollis | ||||||||
Name authority | (Dunal) Hitchcock: Key Spring Fl. Manhattan, 32. (1894) | Nuttall: Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc., n. s. 5: 194. (1836) | ||||||||
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