OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

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

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



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Physalis walteri   FAMILY Solanaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2015)

Physalis walteri

INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 165-03-001:

Physalis viscosa ssp. maritima   FAMILY Solanaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)

Physalis maritima

INCLUDED WITHIN Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Physalis viscosa

 

COMMON NAME:
Dune Ground-cherry, Sand Ground-cherry, Walter's Ground-cherry


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image of Physalis walteri, Dune Ground-cherry, Sand Ground-cherry, Walter's Ground-cherry

Alan S. Weakley    asw_10231861215649368

July    Georgetown County?    SC

Both leaves and stems covered with minute, star-shaped tufts of hairs, per Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast (Cotterman, Waitt, & Weakley, 2019).

image of Physalis walteri, Dune Ground-cherry, Sand Ground-cherry, Walter's Ground-cherry

Alan S. Weakley    asw_10231861435374861

July    Georgetown County?    SC

image of Physalis walteri, Dune Ground-cherry, Sand Ground-cherry, Walter's Ground-cherry

Alan S. Weakley    asw_10231861437974926

July    Georgetown County?    SC

image of Physalis walteri, Dune Ground-cherry, Sand Ground-cherry, Walter's Ground-cherry

Alan S. Weakley    asw_10231861439174956

July    Georgetown County?    SC

Fruit a yellow or orange berry enclosed by an expanded calyx, which matures to a papery husk, per Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast (Cotterman, Waitt, & Weakley, 2019).

image of Physalis walteri, Dune Ground-cherry, Sand Ground-cherry, Walter's Ground-cherry

Alan S. Weakley    asw_10231861439694969

July    Georgetown County?    SC

Calyx 8-10mm long, lobes triangular, half as long as the tube, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).

image of Physalis walteri, Dune Ground-cherry, Sand Ground-cherry, Walter's Ground-cherry

Alan S. Weakley    asw_10231861440134980

July    Georgetown County?    SC

Leaves dendritic-pubescent [hairs branching like a tree], per Weakley's Flora (2023).

image of Physalis walteri, Dune Ground-cherry, Sand Ground-cherry, Walter's Ground-cherry

JK Marlow    jkm090716_034

July    Georgetown County    SC

Huntington Beach State Park

Leaves entire, ovate to elliptic or rarely obovate, both surfaces tomentose, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).

image of Physalis walteri, Dune Ground-cherry, Sand Ground-cherry, Walter's Ground-cherry

JK Marlow    jkm090716_077

July    Georgetown County    SC

Huntington Beach State Park

image of Physalis walteri, Dune Ground-cherry, Sand Ground-cherry, Walter's Ground-cherry

JK Marlow    jkm090716_078

July    Georgetown County    SC

Huntington Beach State Park

Corolla may or may not have dark spots in the base of the tube. Anthers yellow, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).

image of Physalis walteri, Dune Ground-cherry, Sand Ground-cherry, Walter's Ground-cherry

JK Marlow    jkm090716_080

July    Georgetown County    SC

Huntington Beach State Park

image of Physalis walteri, Dune Ground-cherry, Sand Ground-cherry, Walter's Ground-cherry

JK Marlow    jkm090716_083

July    Georgetown County    SC

Huntington Beach State Park

 

 

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

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Physalis walteri   FAMILY Solanaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2015)
Physalis walteri

INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 165-03-001:
Physalis viscosa ssp. maritima   FAMILY Solanaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)
Physalis maritima

INCLUDED WITHIN Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Physalis viscosa

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

2980

Forb
Perennial

Habitat: dunes of sea-beaches, openings in maritime forests, longleaf pine sandhills (southward), and rarely inland as a waif in disturbed areas, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Uncommon

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LEAVES:
Simple
Alternate
Leaves have petioles.

FLOWER:
Spring/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:
Spring/Summer/Fall
Berry

 

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