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§1 Plant
Physalis philadelphica Lam.
vernacular Mexican 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
- CAN Canada Introduced
- HI Hawaii Introduced
- L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
County-level range
· 45 counties across 19 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 45 counties across 19 states/territories.
Arkansas view state ↗ 1 I ▾
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Illinois view state ↗ 9 I ▾
Indiana view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Iowa view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Kansas view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 3 I ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Michigan view state ↗ 4 I ▾
Mississippi view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Missouri view state ↗ 2 I ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 1 I ▾
New York view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Ohio view state ↗ 3 I ▾
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 3 I ▾
Tennessee view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Vermont view state ↗ 2 I ▾
West Virginia view state ↗ 3 I ▾
Wisconsin view state ↗ 5 I ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/PHPH2 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/8969026 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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