Physalis crassifolia |
Physalis lanceolata |
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thick leaf ground cherry, yellow nightshade groundcherry |
sword groundcherry |
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Habit | Herbs perennial, becoming suffrutescent, rhizomatous, rhizomes often just below soil surface, vertical, stout, puberulent, hairs divergent, to 0.5 mm, some glandular, appearing ± glabrous without magnification. | Herbs perennial, rhizomatous, rhizomes stout, sparsely pubescent, hairs simple, antrorse, to 0.5 mm, or simple, jointed, divergent, 1–1.5 mm. |
Stems | erect, branching from near base and at most nodes, branches widely spreading, distinctly zigzag, slender, 1–4(–10) dm. |
decumbent or weakly ascending, infrequently branching, branches spreading and decumbent or parallel to ground, 2–4 dm. |
Leaves | petiolate; petiole mostly as long as blade; blade broadly ovate to deltate, 0.8–3.3(–4.5) × 0.8–3.3(–4.5) cm, base cordate, sometimes slightly unequal, margins entire to unevenly coarsely dentate, sometimes thick and slightly succulent. |
petiolate; petiole 1/25–1/3 blade; blade oblanceolate, 4–10 × 2–6 cm, base attenuate, margins entire to slightly sinuate. |
Pedicels | 8–24(–33) mm, (11–)14–30(–35) mm in fruit. |
10–20 mm, 10–30 mm in fruit. |
Flowers | calyx (3–)4–7(–8) mm, lobes 1–3 mm; corolla pale yellow with yellow or greenish-brown smudges or tinge, campanulate-rotate, 8–14 mm; anthers yellow, not twisted after dehiscence, 1.5–3 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. |
Fruiting calyces | loosely enclosing berry, 10-ribbed, 14–30(–40) × (10–)15–20(–25) mm. |
loosely enclosing to nearly filled by berry, 10-ribbed, 20–35 × 15–30 mm. |
2n | = 24. |
= 24. |
Physalis crassifolia |
Physalis lanceolata |
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Phenology | Flowering year-round in areas without frost, mostly Mar–Apr. | Flowering Apr–Sep. |
Habitat | Gravelly or sandy slopes, washes, roadsides, mesas, canyons. | Dry to xeric pine-oak-grass communities of the Sandhills Region. |
Elevation | 100–1700 m. (300–5600 ft.) | 100–200 m. (300–700 ft.) |
Distribution |
AZ; CA; NV; UT; Mexico (Baja California, Baja California Sur, Chihuahua, Sinaloa, Sonora) [Introduced in Australia]
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GA; NC; SC |
Discussion | In Physalis crassifolia, the corolla limb is widely flaring and reflexed when the flower is fully open, and the flowers are more nodding than fully pendent. Some herbarium specimen labels indicate that plants flower the first year. Physalis greenei Vasey & Rose, not validly published, has been misapplied to some representatives of P. crassifolia. Physalis crassifolia is widespread in Arizona, but it is restricted in California to south-southeastern counties as far north as Inyo, in Nevada to Clark and Lincoln counties, and in Utah to Washington County. (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.) |
Source | FNA vol. 14. | FNA vol. 14. |
Parent taxa | Solanaceae > Physalis | Solanaceae > Physalis |
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Synonyms | P. crassifolia var. cardiophylla, P. crassifolia var. versicolor, P. versicolor | |
Name authority | Bentham: Bot. Voy. Sulphur, 40. (1844) | Michaux: Fl. Bor.-Amer. 1: 149. (1803) |
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