Physalis angulata

Cutleaf ground-cherry

Family: Solanaceae · Type: annual

Cutleaf ground-cherry is a naturalized annual found in wet places, fields, and disturbed areas at elevations below 800 meters. Flowering from June to September, this plant produces pale yellow flowers 7 to 10 millimeters wide with widely bell-shaped corollas. Growing to 80 centimeters tall with sparse, minute appressed hairs, it has an upright annual habit. Its leaves are elliptic-lanceolate to narrowly elliptic-ovate, 3 to 13 centimeters long, with entire or slightly wavy margins and acuminate tips. In fruit, the plant develops a distinctive inflated calyx 20 to 40 millimeters long with prominent veining.

Habitat: Wet places, fields, disturbed places

Bloom period: Jun-Sep

Elevation: < 800 m

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