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§1 Plant
Physalis cordata Mill.
vernacular heartleaf groundcherry — species · Solanaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Annual
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Solanaceae Juss.
- Genus
- Physalis
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
- NAV Navassa Island Native
- PR Puerto Rico Native
- VI U.S. Virgin Islands Native
County-level range
· 58 counties across 10 states/territories§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 58 counties across 10 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Arkansas view state ↗ 8 N ▾
Florida view state ↗ 8 N ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Louisiana view state ↗ 21 N ▾
- Allen 22003
- Avoyelles 22009
- Caddo 22017
- Calcasieu 22019
- Cameron 22023
- De Soto 22031
- East Baton Rouge 22033
- Evangeline 22039
- Franklin 22041
- Iberia 22045
- Iberville 22047
- Lafourche 22057
- Morehouse 22067
- Orleans 22071
- Sabine 22085
- St. Helena 22091
- St. James 22093
- St. John the Baptist 22095
- Terrebonne 22109
- Vermilion 22113
- West Baton Rouge 22121
Mississippi view state ↗ 2 N ▾
North Carolina view state ↗ 2 N ▾
South Carolina view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Tennessee view state ↗ 7 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/PHCO22 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/5341803 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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