Single Record
Participant Info
- Species
- Physalis ixocarpa
- Family
- Solanaceae
- CommonName
- tomatillo
- Presence
- maybe
- Status
- native
- EarliestDate
- 1988
- LatestDate
- 1988
- Ecosystem
- foothill, ruderal
- Geobotanical
- LBasin
- Counties
- Costilla
- Passes
- WildlifePreserves
- Other Localities
- PhotoRecords
- Comments
- There is only one record of Physalis ixocarpa from the Watershed, a plant collected roadside 4 miles east of San Luis (Costilla Co), dated 14 Oct 1988, desiccated with fruit still attached. Neither Ackerfield (2022) or BONAP (2022) show this voucher. Note that P. ixocarpa is sometimes considered the wild form from which the culinary "tomatillo" was cultivated. Other authorities collapse P. ixocarpa into P. philadelphica. Ackerfield and BONA show neither P. ixocarpa or P. philadelphica in Colorado. BONAP shows P. philadelphica with very scattered records throughout the USA, probably most being escapes. The species, native to Mexico, is shown following the Rio Grande nearly to the Gulf of Mexico. Allred et al (2021), who accept P. ixocarpa as a valid species, find it in only one Rio Grande drainage county of New Mexico, namely Santa Fe county.
- Annotation