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Photographer: Len Place
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Family Solanaceae
Physalis longifolia Nutt.
long-leaved ground-cherry, smooth long-leaved ground-cherry, tall ground-cherry
Physalis: from the Greek physalis, "a bladder," because of the inflated calyx
longifolia: longus for "long, extended;" folius for "leaves"
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| Status: | Native |
| Plant: | mostly erect perennial, 16"-32" tall forb, widely branched; upper part of the stems with stiff hairs; colony-forming rhizomes |
| Flower: | yellow with dark spots in the center, 5-parted, 1/2"-2/3" wide, shallow funnel-shaped, stalked; solitary from the leaf axils; blooms July-Aug. |
| Fruit: | green berry, covering much larger than the berry, the tip mostly closed, base slightly notched, hairs only in narrow lines |
| Leaf: | 1 1/2"-4" long, ovate to lance-like, mostly hairless or with a few hairs on the lower veins, long-stalked, entire or with wavy teeth |
| Habitat: | moist to dry; fields, open woods, prairies |
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