Physalis longifolia |
Physalis lanceolata |
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common groundcherry, ground-cherry, long leafed tomatillo, long-leaf ground-cherry, wild tomatillo |
sword 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 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. |
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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 1/25–1/3 blade; blade oblanceolate, 4–10 × 2–6 cm, base attenuate, margins entire to slightly sinuate. |
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Pedicels | 5–18 mm, 12–35 mm in fruit. |
10–20 mm, 10–30 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, 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. |
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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. |
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2n | = 24. |
= 24. |
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Physalis longifolia |
Physalis lanceolata |
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Phenology | Flowering Apr–Sep. | |||||||||
Habitat | Dry to xeric pine-oak-grass communities of the Sandhills Region. | |||||||||
Elevation | 100–200 m. (300–700 ft.) | |||||||||
Distribution |
North America; n Mexico [Introduced in Australia]
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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.) |
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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) | Michaux: Fl. Bor.-Amer. 1: 149. (1803) | ||||||||
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