Duration: Perennial Nativity: Native Lifeform: Forb/Herb General: Herbaceous perennials, to 50 cm long, stems decumbent to spreading, with few branches, herbage sparsely whitish-scurfy, at least on young parts, otherwise glabrous to minutely papillate. Leaves: Alternate, oblong to ovate, 1-7 cm long, entire to lobed, tapered to the base. Flowers: Violet to deep purple with a white eye, showy, corollas rotate, 15-20 mm in diameter, calyxes 3-4.5 mm, becoming 15-20 mm long in fruit, anthers yellow, 1-2.5 mm long, infloresences borne on pedicels 3-4.5 mm long. Fruits: Berry. Seeds thick, spheric to reniform, surfaces coarsely or irregularly rugose (wrinkly) on the back. Ecology: Found on granitic soils, on dry lake margins, plains, mesas, and roadsides, from 1,000-5,000 ft (305-1524 m); flowering March-October. Distribution: Kansas to Texas, Nevada, Arizona, and Mexico. Notes: Look for this trailing Physalis with pretty purple flowers in Navajo, Greenlee, Maricopa, Pinal, and Pima counties in Arizona. Ethnobotany: Specific uses for this species are unknown, but other species in the genus have uses; berries eaten fresh from the vine or used to make preserves, and sun or fire dried and stored for future use. Synonyms: Quincula lobata, Q. lepidota, Physalis sabeana, Chamaesaracha physaloides Editor: LCrumbacher2012 Etymology: Physalis comes from the Greek physalis, "a bladder or bubble," because of the inflated calyx, and lobata means lobed.
Este sitio es resultado de la colaboración entre los herbarios del noroeste de México y El Consorcio de SEINet. Está administrado por el Herbario de la Universidad de Sonora