Index / Search / Physalis virginiana var. virginiana

§1 Plant

Physalis virginiana Mill. var. virginiana

vernacular Virginia groundcherry — variety · Solanaceae


USDA
PHVIV3
GBIF
8016426
Rank
variety
Virginia groundcherry (Physalis virginiana var. virginiana)
Platephotograph · deannadodgson 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

  • CAN Canada Native
  • L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b

County-level range

· 667 counties across 32 states/territories
Legend Native · 667 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 667 counties across 32 states/territories.

Alabama view state ↗ 8 N
Arkansas view state ↗ 28 N
Delaware view state ↗ 1 N
Georgia view state ↗ 19 N
Illinois view state ↗ 5 N
Indiana view state ↗ 18 N
Iowa view state ↗ 17 N
Kansas view state ↗ 29 N
Kentucky view state ↗ 11 N
Louisiana view state ↗ 16 N
Maine view state ↗ 1 N
Massachusetts view state ↗ 1 N
Michigan view state ↗ 28 N
Minnesota view state ↗ 64 N
Mississippi view state ↗ 14 N
Missouri view state ↗ 78 N
Nebraska view state ↗ 36 N
New Hampshire view state ↗ 3 N
New York view state ↗ 10 N
North Carolina view state ↗ 43 N
North Dakota view state ↗ 24 N
Ohio view state ↗ 8 N
Oklahoma view state ↗ 16 N
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 6 N
South Carolina view state ↗ 22 N
South Dakota view state ↗ 14 N
Tennessee view state ↗ 34 N
Texas view state ↗ 1 N
Vermont view state ↗ 3 N
Virginia view state ↗ 51 N
West Virginia view state ↗ 5 N
Wisconsin view state ↗ 53 N

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

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

plants.usda.gov/PHVIV3 ↗

GBIF Backbone

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

gbif.org/species/8016426 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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