Historical Common Names of Great Plains Plants:

Physalis alkekengi L.

Family: Solanaceae

Origin: introduced

Common names:

Alkegnegi berries (1876) (92)

Alkegneki (1949) (109)

Alkegneki Indicum majus (1919) (107)

Alkékenge coqueret (1900, French, fruit) (158)

Alkekengi (1900) (158)

Bladder-herb (1900) (158)

Blasenkirschen (1900, German, fruit) (158)

Cape gooseberry (1876) (92)

Chinese lantern-plant [Chinese lantern plant] (1923-1949) (109, 156)

Common winter-cherry [Common winter cherry] (1840) (19)

Halicacabum seu Solanum Indicum (1586, Camerarius) (107)

Halicacabum sive Solanum Indicum (1586, Camerarius) (107)

Husk-tomato [Husk tomato] (1923) (156)

Judenkirschen (1900, German, fruit) (158)

Keravoulia (1919, Modern Boeotians) (107)

Physalis (77 AD, Dioscorides) (107)

Schlutten (1900, German) (158)

Solanum sive Halicabum Indicum (1613, J. Bauhin) (107)

Solanum vesicarium Indicum (1622, C. Bauhin) (107)

Strawberry ground-cherry [Strawberry groundcherry] (1923-Present) (50, 138, 155)

Strawberry-tomato [Strawberry tomato] (1900-1923 ) (107, 156, 158)

Struchnon halikakabon (77 AD, Dioscorides) (107)

Winter-cherry [Winter cherry] (1876?-1949) (92, 107, 109, 156, 158)

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