Chinese Lantern plant or weed?

Bill_and_Ben

During lockdown last year someone gave me a load of stems of Chinese Lantern plants and warned me they would grow prolifically. I now have a huge crop of something but I am not sure it is Chinese Lantern (Physalis alkekengi). Does anyone recognise this?

I'm not even sure the two plants in the two photos are the same but I have a lot of both next to one another!

pitter-patter

It is Physalis, yes.

JennyJ

The first pic certainly looks like chinese lanterns. I'm not convinced about the second, but maybe it's just the angle.

pitter-patter

@JennyJ You have a point. I haven’t noticed the second photo. I does look like something else.

Ilikeplants

I had some old seeds so sowed them on. They look like tiny versions of your first pic. I heard they could be invasive so going to try them in pots and far away under hedge?

tui34

I am growing these for my niece who decorates cakes.  Mine look like the first picture but not the second.  Yours look healthy.  Very hot here, so they are feeling it!!

Bill_and_Ben

Thank you for all the replies! Maybe I didn't want Chinese Lanterns after all as they do look very weedlike at this stage! 

I've also worked out that the second photo is rudebekia and not Chinese Lanterns. The two are adjacent and both look quite weed like right now.

Bill_and_Ben

JennyJ said:

The first pic certainly looks like chinese lanterns. I'm not convinced about the second, but maybe it's just the angle.

pitter-patter said:

@JennyJ You have a point. I haven’t noticed the second photo. I does look like something else.

Realised the second is rudbeckia!

B3

Yes. It's either or both.