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§1 Plant

Physalis cinerascens (Dunal) Hitchc.

vernacular smallflower groundcherry — species · Solanaceae


USDA
PHCI4
GBIF
5341768
Rank
species
smallflower groundcherry (Physalis cinerascens)
Platephotograph · Linda KCC BY-NC source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

Growth habit
Forb/herb
Duration
Perennial
Group
Dicot
Family
Solanaceae Juss.
Genus
Physalis
§2a

Native status, by region

  • L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b

County-level range

· 162 counties across 9 states/territories
Legend Native · 162 Introduced · 0 Both · 0 Hover a county for detail.

§3Cultivation

No cultivation specs.

USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.


§4Counties, by state

Recorded in 162 counties across 9 states/territories.

Alabama view state ↗ 3 N
Arkansas view state ↗ 1 N
Kansas view state ↗ 3 N
Louisiana view state ↗ 9 N
Missouri view state ↗ 1 N
New Mexico view state ↗ 3 N
Oklahoma view state ↗ 18 N
Tennessee view state ↗ 1 N
Texas view state ↗ 123 N

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.

plants.usda.gov/PHCI4 ↗

GBIF Backbone

Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.

gbif.org/species/5341768 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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