Participant Info

Species

Physalis hederifolia [Physalis hederaefolia] [Physalis comata] [Physalis fendleri]

Family

Solanaceae

CommonName

ivyleaf groundcherry

Presence

yes

Status

native

EarliestDate

1982

LatestDate

2012

Ecosystem

foothill, ruderal

Geobotanical

SSanjuans, UBasin, LBasin

Counties

Conejos, Saguache

Passes

WildlifePreserves

Other Localities

PhotoRecords

Comments

NEED IN SITU PHOTOS. Ivyleaf groundcherry has only one herbarium voucher from the Watershed: Terrace Reservoir, 24 Sept 1982 (Conejos Co). Note that Dixon (2012) finds P. hederifolia in the Watershed, in "disturbed places, valley floor," but so far with no supporting SEINet records. (His Adams State University herbarium vouchers may have not yet been entered into SEINet, and he may be referring to the Taos Plateau in New Mexico.) P. hederifolia is a USA Southwest and Plains groundcherry that has been found in Colorado counties both to the east and west of the Watershed, and in the Rio Grand drainage of New Mexico from the border with Colorado down to the border with Mexico, and on down through Texas to the Gulf of Mexico. Note that the distinction between P. hederifolia and P. fendleri is still not universally agreed upon. For instance BONAP (2022) synonymizes P. fendleri under P. hederifolia, while Ackerfield separates the two species and shows P. hederifolia nowhere west of the Front Range.

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