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General: Yellow Nightshade Groundcherry (Physalis crassifolia) is a mounded, perennial forb that grows to about 18-inches tall. The leaves are thick, rounded, and covered with short, glandular hairs. The flowers are yellow and bell-shaped with fused petals. The fruits are small tomato-like berries held inside a papery bag (like a Chinese lantern).
Yellow Nightshade Groundcherry is fairly common the the Upper Sonoran (Mojave Desert Scrub) life zone, especially along washes. |
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Stems: branched, mounded, rigid.
Leaves: To about 1-1/2 inches, rounded. Covered with dense, short, glandular hairs
Flowers: Blooms in spring to early summer. Inflorescence: solitary. Petals yellow, fused, about 1/2-inch across. Anthers stand out from the petals.
Fruit: small tomato. |