3340

Forb
Annual

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Documented growing wild in GA NC SC

Uncommon

Look for it in disturbed areas, per Weakley's Flora

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LEAVES:
Simple
Alternate
Leaves have petioles.

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

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Berry

 

TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!

• Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians p234?
• Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains p150?

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

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (2/8/20):
Physalis pubescens   FAMILY Solanaceae

INCLUDING PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Physalis pubescens var. pubescens   FAMILY Solanaceae

INCLUDING PLANTS National Database
Physalis pubescens var. integrifolia

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 165-03-005a:
Physalis pubescens var. pubescens   FAMILY Solanaceae

INCLUDING Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)
Physalis barbadensis var. barbadensis

INCLUDING Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Physalis barbadensis