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common groundcherry, ground-cherry, long leafed tomatillo, long-leaf ground-cherry, wild tomatillo

sword groundcherry

Habit Herbs perennial, rhizomatous, rhizomes deeply buried, stout, glabrous or sparsely strigose, hairs simple, antrorse, to 0.5 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 or erect to decumbent, branching frequently at distal nodes or several-branched from base, branches spreading or ascending, 1–6 dm.

decumbent or weakly ascending, infrequently branching, branches spreading and decumbent or parallel to ground, 2–4 dm.

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 1/25–1/3 blade;

blade oblanceolate, 4–10 × 2–6 cm, base attenuate, margins entire to slightly sinuate.

Pedicels

5–18 mm, 12–35 mm in fruit.

10–20 mm, 10–30 mm in fruit.

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, 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, 20–40 × 15–30 mm.

loosely enclosing to nearly filled by berry, 10-ribbed, 20–35 × 15–30 mm.

2n

= 24.

= 24.

Physalis longifolia

Physalis lanceolata

Phenology Flowering Apr–Sep.
Habitat Dry to xeric pine-oak-grass communities of the Sandhills Region.
Elevation 100–200 m. (300–700 ft.)
Distribution
from USDA
North America; n Mexico [Introduced in Australia]
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from FNA
GA; NC; SC
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Discussion

Varieties 3 (3 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.)

Key
1. Stems erect to decumbent, branching at base; leaf blades glabrous.
var. texana
1. Stems erect, branching at distal nodes; leaf blades glabrous or sparsely strigose.
→ 2
2. Leaf blades narrowly ovate-lanceolate to lan­ceolate; anthers yellow.
var. longifolia
2. Leaf blades ovate to ovate-lanceolate or broadly lanceolate; anthers blue-tinged.
var. subglabrata
Source FNA vol. 14. FNA vol. 14.
Parent taxa Solanaceae > Physalis Solanaceae > Physalis
Sibling taxa
P. acutifolia, P. angulata, P. angustifolia, P. arenicola, P. caudella, P. cinerascens, P. cordata, P. crassifolia, P. fendleri, P. grisea, P. hederifolia, P. heterophylla, P. lanceolata, P. missouriensis, P. mollis, P. neomexicana, P. philadelphica, P. pubescens, P. pumila, P. solanacea, P. virginiana, P. walteri, P. ×elliottii
P. acutifolia, P. angulata, P. angustifolia, P. arenicola, P. caudella, P. cinerascens, P. cordata, P. crassifolia, P. fendleri, P. grisea, P. hederifolia, P. heterophylla, P. longifolia, P. missouriensis, P. mollis, P. neomexicana, P. philadelphica, P. pubescens, P. pumila, P. solanacea, P. virginiana, P. walteri, P. ×elliottii
Subordinate taxa
P. longifolia var. longifolia, P. longifolia var. subglabrata, P. longifolia var. texana
Name authority Nuttall: Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc., n. s. 5: 193. (1836) Michaux: Fl. Bor.-Amer. 1: 149. (1803)
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