Physalis longifolia var. longifolia

Longleaf ground-cherry

Family: Solanaceae · Type: perennial

Longleaf ground-cherry is a naturalized perennial herb found in disturbed places and fields at elevations below 1,000 meters. Flowering from June to October, this plant produces yellow flowers with distinctive purple spots or veins at the base, measuring 15 to 20 millimeters wide and bell-shaped. Growing with stems 20 to 60 centimeters tall, the plant has a sparse covering of unbranched hairs primarily on leaf margins and veins. Its leaves are lanceolate to elliptic, 4 to 7 centimeters long, with tapered bases and acute tips, generally entire but occasionally irregularly toothed. The plant's fruit-bearing calyx expands to 25 to 35 millimeters, creating a distinctive structural feature.

Habitat: Disturbed places, fields

Bloom period: Jun-Oct

Elevation: < 1000 m

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