Physalis longifolia |
Physalis cinerascens |
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common groundcherry, ground-cherry, long leafed tomatillo, long-leaf ground-cherry, wild tomatillo |
smallflower 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, stout, sparsely to ± densely pubescent, hairs dendroid-stelliform, to 1 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 to decumbent, branching at most nodes, proximal branches spreading and decumbent, 0.5–5 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. |
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. |
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Pedicels | 5–18 mm, 12–35 mm in fruit. |
10–33 mm, 15–60 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 (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. |
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Fruiting calyces | loosely enclosing berry, 10-ribbed, 20–40 × 15–30 mm. |
loosely enclosing berry, 10-ribbed, 15–35(–45) × 10–35 mm. |
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2n | = 24. |
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Physalis longifolia |
Physalis cinerascens |
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Distribution |
North America; n Mexico [Introduced in Australia]
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c United States; sc United States; Mexico
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Discussion | Varieties 3 (3 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 | |||||||||||||
Name authority | Nuttall: Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc., n. s. 5: 193. (1836) | (Dunal) Hitchcock: Key Spring Fl. Manhattan, 32. (1894) | ||||||||||||
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