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Annual to shrub
Leaves generally simple, generally alternate, generally petioled; stipules 0; blade entire to deeply lobed
Inflorescence various
Flower bisexual; calyx lobes generally 5; corolla ± radial, cylindric to rotate, lobes generally 5; stamens 5, alternate corolla lobes; ovary superior, generally 2-chambered, style 1
Fruit: berry or capsule, 25-chambered
Genera in family: 75 genera, 3000 species: worldwide, especially ± tropical; many alien weeds in CA; many cultivated for food, drugs, or ornamental (potato, tomato, peppers, tobacco, petunia);many TOXIC .
Annual or rhizomed per; hairs sometimes branched
Leaves sometimes ± opposite, entire to pinnately lobed
Inflorescence: flowers 1few per axil, pedicelled
Flower: calyx 5-lobed, enlarged and persistent in fruit; corolla rotate to widely bell-shaped, yellowish, often dark-spotted inside; stamens 5, filaments inserted on hairy band in corolla tube, anthers free, generally < filaments, opening by slits; style generally straight
Fruit: berry
Seeds many, 22.5 mm, ± spheric to reniform
Species in genus: ± 85 species: Am, Eurasia, Australia
Etymology: (Greek: bladder, from calyx in fruit)
Reference: [Sullivan 1985 Syst Bot 10:426444]
Some species cultivated for edible or ornamental fruit.Unripe fruit often TOXIC. Needs further study in w US .
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Perennial or subshrub < 8 dm; hairs simple, dense, short, generally glandular
Stem often zigzag, ridged
Leaf 13 cm, generally ovate, fleshy, entire or ± wavy; petiole ± = blade
Inflorescence: pedicels 1530 mm, in fruit > flowers
Flower: calyx 47 mm, in fruit 2025 mm, weakly angled; corolla 1520 mm diam, widely bell-shaped, yellow; anthers 23 mm, yellow
Ecology: Gravelly to rocky flats, washes, slopes
Elevation: < 1300 m.
Bioregional distribution: Peninsular Ranges, s East of Sierra Nevada, Desert
Distribution outside California: Nevada, Arizona, n Mexico
Flowering time: MarMay
Synonyms: var. versicolor (Rydb.) Waterf.; P. greenei Vasey & Rose, Greene's ground-cherry
Horticultural information: TRY; DFCLT.