PRAIRIE GROUND-CHERRY
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Physalis pumila Nutt.
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| Dickinson County, Kansas |
| Perennial |
| Height: 6-18 inches |
| Family: Solanaceae – Nightshade Family |
| Flowering Period: May, June, July, August, September |
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| Stems: | | Erect, branched basally, with abundant stellate or branched hairs mixed with few simple hairs. | | Leaves: | | Petiole .2 to 1.2 inch; blade lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, 1.6 to 3.2 inches long, .4 to 1.8 inch wide, base attenuate, margins entire to irregularly sinuate-dentate, apex usually acute. | | Inflorescences: | | Flowers solitary, axillary. Pedicels .3 to 1.2 inch in flower, .8 to 2 inches in fruit. | | Flowers: | | Radially symmetric, nodding at anthesis; calyx campanulate, 5-lobed, .4 to 1.6 inch, with dense, spreading stellate or branched hairs mixed with simple hairs; lobes .12 to .2 inch; corolla yellow, center faintly or scarcely spotted, .5 to .8 inch; anthers yellow, .1 to .12 inch. | | Fruits: | | Fruiting calyx inflated, loose-fitting around berry, 1.2 to 1.6 inch, 10-angled; berry globose, .4 to .6 inch diam.; seed numerous, reniform to ovate, flattened, minutely pitted. | | Habitat: | | Rocky tallgrass prairies, roadsides, oak-hickory woodlands, pastures | | Distribution: | | East 1/2 of Kansas | | Origin: | | Native | | Comments: | | Physalis, bladder, alluding to the inflated calyx and pumila,/i>, dwarf. |
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