Name that plant
Details:
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Date Photo Taken
05 / 26 / 2014
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Season Photo Was Taken
Spring
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Region Photo Was Taken
Southeast
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City
Swansea
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State
South Carolina
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Posted by
kk4wildflws
Notes:
Growing on a sandy, slightly moist bank on the edge of a trail. Soft green leaves and stems. Leaves have hairs/spikes (soft) underneath. The flowers bloom in May and are 1/2 wide and far downward. The seed pod looks like a okra. The plant dies back in winter.
Comments
Jim Unregistered says:
Stone – I’m pretty sure you hit it with the first one – the walteri.
June 3rd, 2014 at 12:59pm
Jim Unregistered says:
Stone – Thanks for the extra effort. I’ll study all your references and learn something.
June 3rd, 2014 at 12:49pm
kk4wildflws Apprentice says:
Thanks so much for trying to pin this down! I really appreciate it. It wasn’t in any of my books and is a new plant for me. I love the cool seed/fruit pods that it is now producing. It is a unique plant.
June 2nd, 2014 at 7:52pm
stone Master Identifier says:
I’ve run into blank walls trying to identify my native physalis… As can be seen on this thread…. http://allthingsplants.com/thread/view/16848/Physalis-angulata/ Neither of us were able to pin down exactly which plants we had…
June 2nd, 2014 at 1:16pm
stone Master Identifier says:
Also for your consideration… Physalis mollis http://plants.usda.gov/java/largeImage?imageID=phmo9_001_ahp.jpg
June 2nd, 2014 at 1:18pm
stone Master Identifier says:
Naming it physalis… Is the easy part. Finding the second name is more difficult. Possible match for physalis walteri http://plants.usda.gov/core/profile?symbol=phwa4
June 2nd, 2014 at 1:53pm
Jim Unregistered says:
Stone – are you sure? I’m not an expert, by any means, but the leaf seems a little different from the ground cherries I’ve seen, and (although very young) the fruit doesn’t seem to have the lantern-like husk. If you are, do you know the species?
June 2nd, 2014 at 11:36am
stone Master Identifier says:
ground cherry (physalis sp.) Not all Physalis species bear edible fruit….
June 2nd, 2014 at 7:05am