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Physalis latiphysa
Also called Husk Tomato, Ground Cherry, Low Ground Cherry, Downy Ground Cherry, Strawberry Tomato, Low Hairy Ground Cherry, Groundcherry
Physalis latiphysa is a herbaceous plant that grows to a height of 30 to 45 cm. The shoot axis is densely hairy with multicellular, glandular trichomes. The leaves are silky and hairy, 5.5 to 16.0 cm long, with petioles 2.5 to 7.5 cm and leaf blades 3.0 to 8.5 cm. The leaf blade has a width of 1.5 to 7.0 cm, the tip is tapering, the base is blunt, rarely skewed by up to 3 mm. The leaf margin is entire or rarely serrated with up to four teeth per side.
The flowers are on 4 to 11 mm long pedicels; the calyx has pointed calyx lobes, is glandular hairy and 2.2 to 2.5 mm long and 1.0 to 1.5 mm wide. The corolla is creamy yellow, each of the five fused petals has five dark blue markings on the inside, the corolla diameter is 3.5 to 4.0 mm. The stamens are hairy and colored blue, the anthers blue or mottled blue with a length of 1 mm. The flowering period is between July and September.
The species occurs in southern Arizona, and has also been attested in Sonora, Guanajuato, and Michoacán.
Sharpleaf groundcherry · Cutleaf groundcherry · Coastal groundcherry · Southwestern groundcherry · Cotztomatl · Yellow nightshade groundcherry · Strawberry-tomato · Ivyleaf groundcherry · Clammy groundcherry · Physalis infinemundi · Longleaf groundcherry · Physalis nicandroides
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Physalis latiphysa by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
