Single Record
Participant Info
- Species
- Physalis philadelphica
- Family
- Solanaceae
- CommonName
- Mexican groundcherry, tomotillos
- Presence
- MAYBE
- Status
- exotic
- EarliestDate
- 1988
- LatestDate
- 1988
- Ecosystem
- foothill
- Geobotanical
- Culebras
- Counties
- Costilla
- Passes
- WildlifePreserves
- Other Localities
- PhotoRecords
- Comments
- NEED IN SITU PHOTOS. Of tomatillo the Watershed has only one record, 4 miles east of San Luis, roadside (Costilla Co, 1988). Physalis philadelphica, exotic, used in Mexican cooking, the basic ingredient of salsa verde, may have escaped cultivation in the Watershed, as it has in a number of states around the USA. BONAP shows very scattered locations running down the Rio Grande drainage through New Mexico and Texas nearly to the Gulf of Mexico. Incidentally, why Lamarck named this species "philadelphica" remains a mystery.
- Annotation