Author

Christina Legleu

Ecology

Sunny places along sandy field margins, roadsides, open woodlands, and disturbed habitats.

Family

Solanaceae

Flowers

Solitary, perfect, hypogynous, sympetalous; immaculate, yellow corolla, 6-12 mm long and wide, campanulate, pentagonally symmetric; anthers 1-2.5 mm long, bluish or violet on slender filament 3-5 mm long; flowering calyx usually 4-7 mm long with lobes 2-3 mm long.

Fruit

Fruiting calyx ovate, 10-angled or 10-ribbed, 20-35 mm long, 15-25 mm wide on pedicels 1-4 mm long, usually purple veined; berry 8-12 mm in diameter on 1 mm long stalk (gynobase).

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Leaves

Leaves alternate, petiolate; blades thin, ovate to lance-ovate, 4-10 (15)cm long, 3-6 (10)cm wide, often coarsely or irregularly toothed to entire.

References

Correll, D.S., A.C. Johnston. 1970. Manual of the Vascular Plants of Texas.

Texas Research Foundation, TX, USA.

Gleason, H.A., A.C. Cronquist. 1991. Manual of Vascular Plants of Northeastern

United States and Adjacent Canada, Second Edition. The New York

Botanical Garden, NY, USA.

ITIS. 2006. The Integrated Taxonomic Information System. http://www.itis.gov.

Radford, A.E., H.E. Ahles, and C.R. Bell. 1968. Manual of the Vascular Flora of

the Carolinas. The University of North Carolina Press, NC,

USA.

USDA, NRCS. 2006. The PLANTS Database (http://plants.usda.gov, 1 December

2006). National Plant Data Center, Baton Rouge, LA 70874-4490 USA.

Synonyms

Physalis angulata L. var. lanceifolia (Nees) Waterfall  

Physalis angulata L. var. pendula (Rydb.) Waterfall  

Physalis capsicifolia Dun.

Physalis lanceifolia Nees  

Physalis pendula Rydb.

Physalis ramosissima Mill.

Physalis linkiana Nees.