Physalis longifolia |
Physalis caudella |
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common groundcherry, ground-cherry, long leafed tomatillo, long-leaf ground-cherry, wild tomatillo |
Southwestern groundcherry |
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Habit | Herbs perennial, rhizomatous, rhizomes deeply buried, stout, glabrous or sparsely strigose, hairs simple, antrorse, to 0.5 mm. | Herbs perennial, rhizomatous, rhizomes deeply buried and seldom collected, sparsely pubescent to densely villous, hairs simple, jointed, 1–3 mm. | ||||||||
Stems | erect or erect to decumbent, branching frequently at distal nodes or several-branched from base, branches spreading or ascending, 1–6 dm. |
erect, branching infrequently, branches ascending to spreading, 1–3(–4) dm. |
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Leaves | 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. |
petiolate; petiole to 1/3 blade at proximal nodes, appearing ± sessile at distal nodes; blade lanceolate or lanceolate-ovate, (2.5–)4.5–7.5(–9.5) × 1.2–2.5(–4) cm, base rounded and tapering to petiole, margins entire, saliently few-toothed, or repand. |
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Pedicels | 5–18 mm, 12–35 mm in fruit. |
8–13(–15) mm, 10–20(–25) mm in fruit. |
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Flowers | 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. |
calyx 6–10 mm, lobes 2–5(–7) mm; corolla yellow with dark purple-black spots, campanulate-rotate, 14–16 mm; anthers dark purple to blue, rarely yellow, not twisted after dehiscence, (2–)3–3.5 mm. |
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Fruiting calyces | loosely enclosing berry, 10-ribbed, 20–40 × 15–30 mm. |
loosely enclosing berry, 10-ribbed, (20–)30–50 × 20–30(–35) mm, lobes attenuate. |
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2n | = 24. |
= 24. |
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Physalis longifolia |
Physalis caudella |
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Phenology | Flowering (sporadically Jun–)Aug. | |||||||||
Habitat | Loose, gravelly soil near streams, slopes, rocky ridges, pinyon-oak-juniper woodlands. | |||||||||
Elevation | 1200–2800 m. (3900–9200 ft.) | |||||||||
Distribution |
North America; n Mexico [Introduced in Australia]
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AZ; NM; Mexico (Chihuahua, Sonora) |
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Discussion | Varieties 3 (3 in the flora). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Only a few herbarium specimens of Physalis caudella have been seen from the flora area (Apache, Cochise, Pima, and Santa Cruz counties in Arizona, and Catron County in New Mexico). (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: Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc., n. s. 5: 193. (1836) | Standley: Publ. Field Mus. Nat. Hist., Bot. Ser. 17: 273. (1937) | ||||||||
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