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Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Lamiids: Solanales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Physalis angulata   FAMILY Solanaceae   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Physalis angulata   FAMILY Solanaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Physalis angulata

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 165-03-004:

Physalis angulata   FAMILY Solanaceae

INCLUDING Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)

Physalis angulata

INCLUDING Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)

Physalis pendula

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Physalis angulata

 

COMMON NAME:
Smooth Ground-cherry, Cutleaf Ground-cherry


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image of Physalis angulata, Smooth Ground-cherry, Cutleaf Ground-cherry

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_phan5_001_lvd

        

image of Physalis angulata, Smooth Ground-cherry, Cutleaf Ground-cherry

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_phpe11_001_lvd

        

image of Physalis angulata, Smooth Ground-cherry, Cutleaf Ground-cherry

JK Marlow    jkm190702_9677

July    Greenville County    SC

Fruiting calyx sunken at base, smooth, typically purple-veined & 10-ribbed, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005).

image of Physalis angulata, Smooth Ground-cherry, Cutleaf Ground-cherry

JK Marlow    jkm190702_9679

July    Greenville County    SC

Flowers of all Physalis are somewhat bell-shaped and face downward, per Vascular Plants of North Carolina.

image of Physalis angulata, Smooth Ground-cherry, Cutleaf Ground-cherry

JK Marlow    jkm190702_9682

July    Greenville County    SC

Leaves ovate to lanceolate-ovate, irregularly and coarsely toothed, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005).

image of Physalis angulata, Smooth Ground-cherry, Cutleaf Ground-cherry

JK Marlow    jkm190702_9693

July    Greenville County    SC

Its distinctly large, sharp teeth differ from other Physalis species in NC, per Vascular Plants of North Carolina.

image of Physalis angulata, Smooth Ground-cherry, Cutleaf Ground-cherry

Roxanna Martin    rlm91309_017

September    Spartanburg County    SC

image of Physalis angulata, Smooth Ground-cherry, Cutleaf Ground-cherry

Roxanna Martin    rlm91309_019

September    Spartanburg County    SC

image of Physalis angulata, Smooth Ground-cherry, Cutleaf Ground-cherry

Roxanna Martin    rlm9609_072

September    Spartanburg County    SC

image of Physalis angulata, Smooth Ground-cherry, Cutleaf Ground-cherry

Roxanna Martin    rlm9609_080

September    Spartanburg County    SC

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Physalis angulata   FAMILY Solanaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Physalis angulata   FAMILY Solanaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Physalis angulata

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 165-03-004:
Physalis angulata   FAMILY Solanaceae

INCLUDING Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Physalis angulata

INCLUDING Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Physalis pendula

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Physalis angulata

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

1074

Forb
Annual

Habitat: Longleaf pine sandhills, disturbed areas, open woodlands, agricultural fields, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Common in Coastal Plain & Carolina Piedmont (uncommon to rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)

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LEAVES:
Simple
Alternate
Leaves have petioles.

FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Yellow
Radially symmetrical
5-merous
5-lobed calyx
5-lobed campanulate to subrotate corolla
5 stamens
Superior ovary
Bisexual

Flowers solitary in leaf axils

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Berry

 

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