Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Lamiids: Solanales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Physalis lanceolata
FAMILY
Solanaceae
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Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Many earlier floras included midwestern material in the concept of this species; it is, however, limited to the Carolinas and Georgia. Read more in Weakley's Flora (2023).
Learn more from Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Physalis lanceolata
FAMILY
Solanaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Physalis lanceolata
SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America
Physalis lanceolata
SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 165-03-002x:
Physalis lanceolata FAMILY Solanaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Physalis lanceolata
COMMON NAME:
Sandhills Ground-cherry, Sword Ground-cherry
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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Physalis lanceolata
FAMILY
Solanaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Physalis lanceolata
FAMILY
Solanaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Physalis lanceolata
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America
Physalis lanceolata
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 165-03-002x:
Physalis lanceolata
FAMILY
Solanaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Physalis lanceolata
4935
Forb
Perennial
Habitat: Longleaf pine sandhills, per Weakley's Flora
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Uncommon in NC Coastal Plain (rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)
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LEAVES:
Simple
Alternate
Leaves have petioles.
FLOWER:
Summer
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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