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|accepted_name=Physalis heterophylla
|accepted_authority=Nees
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Linnaea
|place=6: 463. 1831
|year=1831
}}
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=W
|label=Weedy
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|code=E
|label=Endemic
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|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Physalis ambigua
|authority=(A. Gray) Britton
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=P. heterophylla var. ambigua
|authority=(A. Gray) Rydberg
|rank=variety
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|name=P. heterophylla var. clavipes
|authority=Fernald
|rank=variety
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=P. heterophylla var. nyctaginea
|authority=(Dunal) Rydberg
|rank=variety
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=P. heterophylla var. villosa
|authority=Waterfall
|rank=variety
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=P. nyctaginea
|authority=Dunal
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=P. sinuata
|authority=Rydberg
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Solanaceae;Physalis;Physalis heterophylla
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Solanaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Physalis]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Physalis heterophylla]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 14
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs </b>perennial, rhizomatous, rhizomes deeply buried, stout, densely villous, hairs simple, jointed, divergent, 1–2 mm, sometimes also with shorter glandular hairs. <b>Stems</b> erect to decumbent, branching at most nodes, branches spreading and decumbent, 1.5–10 dm. <b>Leaves</b> petiolate; petiole 1/3–2/3 blade; blade broadly ovate to suborbiculate, (2–)4–11(–13) × 3–9(–10) cm, base truncate to slightly cordate, margins deeply and irregularly dentate to ± entire. <b>Pedicels</b> 9–15(–20) mm, 20–30 mm in fruit. <b>Flowers</b>: calyx 6–12 mm, lobes 3–6 mm; corolla yellow with 5 large purple-brown smudges, campanulate-rotate, 10–17 mm; anthers yellow, rarely blue-tinged, not twisted after dehiscence, 2.5–4.5 mm. <b>Fruiting</b> calyces loosely enclosing berry, 10-ribbed, 25–40 × 15–30 mm. <b>2n</b> = 24.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering May–Sep.
|habitat=Openings in hardwood forests, edges of pine woods, grasslands, fields, roadsides, disturbed sites.
|elevation=10–400 m.
|distribution=Ont.;Que.;Sask.;Ala.;Ark.;Colo.;Conn.;Del.;D.C.;Fla.;Ga.;Ill.;Ind.;Iowa;Kans.;Ky.;La.;Maine;Md.;Mass.;Mich.;Minn.;Miss.;Mo.;Mont.;Nebr.;N.H.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;N.Dak.;Ohio;Okla.;Pa.;R.I.;S.C.;S.Dak.;Tenn.;Tex.;Vt.;Va.;W.Va.;Wis.;Wyo.
|discussion=<p>Physalis heterophylla is widespread east of the Rocky Mountains. Herbarium specimens from Manitoba, Oregon, and Utah represent historical collections. Morphological variation has been recognized taxonomically in some manuals, although intergradation occurs among varieties and they often cannot be identified reliably. The cultivated P. peruviana (cape gooseberry) is similar to P. heterophylla except that it is not glandular and has shorter pedicels (6–8 mm in flower, 13–15 mm in fruit). W. F. Hinton (1975b) reported the uncommon occurrence of a population in North Carolina representing natural hybridization between P. heterophylla and P. virginiana.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Physalis heterophylla
|authority=Nees
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Physalis ambigua;P. heterophylla var. ambigua;P. heterophylla var. clavipes;P. heterophylla var. nyctaginea;P. heterophylla var. villosa;P. nyctaginea;P. sinuata
|basionyms=
|family=Solanaceae
|phenology=Flowering May–Sep.
|habitat=Openings in hardwood forests, edges of pine woods, grasslands, fields, roadsides, disturbed sites.
|elevation=10–400 m.
|distribution=Ont.;Que.;Sask.;Ala.;Ark.;Colo.;Conn.;Del.;D.C.;Fla.;Ga.;Ill.;Ind.;Iowa;Kans.;Ky.;La.;Maine;Md.;Mass.;Mich.;Minn.;Miss.;Mo.;Mont.;Nebr.;N.H.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;N.Dak.;Ohio;Okla.;Pa.;R.I.;S.C.;S.Dak.;Tenn.;Tex.;Vt.;Va.;W.Va.;Wis.;Wyo.
|reference=None
|publication title=Linnaea
|publication year=1831
|special status=Weedy;Endemic
|source xml=
|genus=Physalis
|species=Physalis heterophylla
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