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Thick-leaf Ground-cherry
Physalis crassifolia
  
1 Nurseries Carry This Plant

About Thick-leaf Ground-cherry (Physalis crassifolia) 1 Nurseries Carry This Plant Physalis crassifolia is a species of flowering plant in the nightshade family known by the common names yellow nightshade groundcherry and thick-leaf ground-cherry. It is native to the southwestern United States and northern Mexico, where it can be found in rocky, dry desert and mountain habitat. This is a perennial herb producing a ridged, angular, branching stem approaching 80 cm long, taking a clumped, matted, or erect form. The fleshy oval leaves are 1 to 3 cm long and have smooth, wavy, or bluntly toothed edges. The herbage is glandular and coated in short hairs. The yellow flowers growing from the leaf axils are widely bell-shaped, vaguely five-lobed, and around 2 cm wide. The star-shaped calyx of sepals at the base of the flower enlarges as the fruit develops, becoming an inflated, angled lanternlike structure about 2 cm long, which contains the berry.
Plant Description
Plant Type
Plant Type
Annual Herb, Perennial Herb

Flower Color
Flower Color
Yellow

Wildlife Supported
 


 
Butterflies & moths hosted ( 7 likely * ) SHOW ALL
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White-lined Sphinx Hyles lineataHyles lineata
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Carolina Sphinx Manduca sextaManduca sexta
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Corn Earworm Moth Helicoverpa zeaHelicoverpa zea
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Estigmene acrea Image
Salt Marsh Moth or Acrea Moth Estigmene acreaEstigmene acrea
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Chloridea virescens Image
Tobacco Budworm Moth Chloridea virescensChloridea virescens
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Manduca quinquemaculata Image
Five-spotted Hawkmoth Manduca quinquemaculataManduca quinquemaculata
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Eggplant Leafroller Lineodes integraLineodes integra

Landscaping Information
Nurseries
Nurseries
Carried by 1

Natural Setting
Climate
Climate
Annual Precipitation: 2.6" - 19.6", Summer Precipitation: 0.23" - 2.88", Coldest Month: 40.5" - 63.2", Hottest Month: 65.6" - 89.3", Humidity: 1.37" - 44.43", Elevation: -190" - 6029"

Alternative Names
Common Names: Thick-leaved Ground Cherry, Yellow Nightshade Ground Cherry, Yellow Nightshade Groundcherry


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Sources include: Wikipedia. All text shown in the "About" section of these pages is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. Plant observation data provided by the participants of the California Consortia of Herbaria, Sunset information provided by Jepson Flora Project. Propogation from seed information provided by the Santa Barbara Botanical Garden from "Seed Propagation of Native California Plants" by Dara E. Emery. Sources of plant photos include CalPhotos, Wikimedia Commons, and independent plant photographers who have agreed to share their images with Calscape. Other general sources of information include Calflora, CNPS Manual of Vegetation Online, Jepson Flora Project, Las Pilitas, Theodore Payne, Tree of Life, The Xerces Society, and information provided by CNPS volunteer editors, with special thanks to Don Rideout. Climate data used in creation of plant range maps is from PRISM Climate Group, Oregon State University, using 30 year (1981-2010) annual "normals" at an 800 meter spatial resolution.

Links:   Jepson eFlora Taxon Page  CalPhotos  Wikipedia  Calflora


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