About
A compact, upright, evergreen shrub or subshrub to about 30cm from the rocky hills of southwestern Utah with tiny, stiff, narrowly elliptic, mid-green leaves and small, yellow, tubular, 4-petalled flowers in short racemes in spring. A charming and unusual native for a sunny, very well-drained rock garden or alpine collection.
About the genus
Physalis can be annuals or rhizomatous perennials with simple or pinnately lobed leaves and small bell-shaped flowers in the leaf axils, followed by fleshy, sometimes edible, yellow, red or purple berries, enclosed in enlarged, often colourful, calyces
Plant details
Suggested usesBedding, containers, hanging baskets.
Care notes
CultivationPlant after last frost in fertile soil.
PruningDeadhead regularly.
PropagationGrow from seed in spring.
Pest resistanceGenerally pest-free.
Disease resistanceGenerally disease-resistant.