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Photographer: Dorothy J. Lott
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Family Solanaceae
Physalis alkekengi L.
Chinese lantern-plant, strawberry ground-cherry
Physalis: from the Greek physalis, "a bladder," because of the inflated calyx
alkekengi: Arabic al kekendi for Pysaria alkekengi; bladder cherry
Hazardous 
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| Status: | Introduced - rarely escaped |
| Plant: | mostly erect perennial, 16"-24" tall forb, unbranched; colony-forming rhizomes |
| Flower: | white to cream with a darker center, 5-parted, 1/2" wide, shallow funnel-shaped, stalked, nodding; solitary from the leaf axils; blooms June-Aug. |
| Fruit: | berry with a bright orange covering much larger than the berry and closed at the end |
| Leaf: | stalked, ovate |
| Habitat: | disturbed areas |
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