Physalis

Accepted species 84 Documented here 32 Family Solanaceae

Accepted species 84 in this genus

Every accepted species in the genus is listed. A name links to its page when we hold at least three commercially licensed photographs of it. Where we do not, the row shows how many we actually found, which is usually none.

SpeciesAuthority Usable photographsPage
Physalis peruviana L. 808 documented
Physalis angulata L. 784 documented
Physalis crassifolia Benth. 528 documented
Physalis heterophylla Nees 481 documented
Physalis longifolia Nutt. 447 documented
Physalis walteri Nutt. 328 documented
Physalis viscosa L. 241 documented
Physalis cinerascens (Dunal) Hitchc. 228 documented
Physalis philadelphica Lam. 174 documented
Physalis virginiana Mill. 111 documented
Physalis acutifolia (Miers) Sandwith 74 documented
Physalis arenicola Kearney 68 documented
Physalis pubescens L. 62 documented
Physalis angustifolia Nutt. 60 documented
Physalis neomexicana Rydb. 50 documented
Physalis glabra Benth. 41 documented
Physalis hederifolia A.Gray 41 documented
Physalis fendleri A.Gray 39 documented
Physalis solanacea (Schltdl.) Axelius 35 documented
Physalis grisea (Waterf.) M.Martínez 24 documented
Physalis melanocystis (B.L.Rob.) Bitter 23 documented
Physalis mollis Nutt. 21 documented
Physalis patula Mill. 17 documented
Physalis pumila Nutt. 17 documented
Physalis sulphurea (Fernald) Waterf. 13 documented
Physalis cordata Mill. 10 documented
Physalis campechiana L. 9 documented
Physalis nicandroides Schltdl. 9 documented
Physalis caudella Standl. 7 documented
Physalis coztomatl Dunal 7 documented
Physalis lanceolata Michx. 7 documented
Physalis missouriensis Mack. & Bush 6 documented
Physalis pruinosa L. 2 below the evidence gate
Physalis × elliottii Kunze 0 below the evidence gate
Physalis aggregata Waterf. 0 below the evidence gate
Physalis ampla Waterf. 0 below the evidence gate
Physalis angustior Waterf. 0 below the evidence gate
Physalis angustiphysa Waterf. 0 below the evidence gate
Physalis campanula Standl. & Steyerm. 0 below the evidence gate
Physalis chenopodifolia Lam. 0 below the evidence gate
Physalis constricta Waterf. 0 below the evidence gate
Physalis glutinosa Schltdl. 0 below the evidence gate
Physalis gracilis Miers 0 below the evidence gate
Physalis greenmanii Waterf. 0 below the evidence gate
Physalis hastatula Waterf. 0 below the evidence gate
Physalis hintonii Waterf. 0 below the evidence gate
Physalis hunzikeriana M.Martínez 0 below the evidence gate
Physalis ignota Britton 0 below the evidence gate
Physalis ingrata Standl. 0 below the evidence gate
Physalis ixocarpa Brot. ex Hornem. 0 below the evidence gate
Physalis lagascae Roem. & Schult. 0 below the evidence gate
Physalis lassa Standl. & Steyerm. 0 below the evidence gate
Physalis latecorollata Waterf. 0 below the evidence gate
Physalis leptophylla B.L.Rob. & Greenm. 0 below the evidence gate
Physalis lignescens Waterf. 0 below the evidence gate
Physalis longicaulis Waterf. 0 below the evidence gate
Physalis longiloba O.Vargas, M.Martínez & Dávila 0 below the evidence gate
Physalis longipedicellata Waterf. 0 below the evidence gate
Physalis macrosperma Pyne, E.L.Bridges & Orzell 0 below the evidence gate
Physalis mcvaughii Waterf. 0 below the evidence gate
Physalis microcarpa Urb. & Ekman 0 below the evidence gate
Physalis minima L. 0 below the evidence gate
Physalis minimaculata Waterf. 0 below the evidence gate
Physalis minuta Griggs 0 below the evidence gate
Physalis muelleri Waterf. 0 below the evidence gate
Physalis orizabae Dunal 0 below the evidence gate
Physalis parvianthera Waterf. 0 below the evidence gate
Physalis pennellii Waterf. 0 below the evidence gate
Physalis philippensis Fernald 0 below the evidence gate
Physalis porrecta Waterf. 0 below the evidence gate
Physalis pringlei Greenm. 0 below the evidence gate
Physalis purpurea Wiggins 0 below the evidence gate
Physalis queretaroensis M.Martínez & L.Hern. 0 below the evidence gate
Physalis rydbergii Fernald 0 below the evidence gate
Physalis sancti-josephi Dunal 0 below the evidence gate
Physalis sordida Fernald 0 below the evidence gate
Physalis stapelioides (Decne. ex Regel) Bitter 0 below the evidence gate
Physalis subilsiana J.M.Toledo 0 below the evidence gate
Physalis subrepens Waterf. 0 below the evidence gate
Physalis tamayoi O.Vargas, M.Martínez & Dávila 0 below the evidence gate
Physalis tehuacanensis Waterf. 0 below the evidence gate
Physalis victoriana J.M.Toledo 0 below the evidence gate
Physalis volubilis Waterf. 0 below the evidence gate
Physalis waterfallii O.Vargas, M.Martínez & Dávila 0 below the evidence gate

Why some species have no pagethe gate

This site is commercial, so it can only publish photographs licensed for commercial use. Roughly three quarters of the photographs on iNaturalist are CC BY-NC, which excludes them. A species needs at least three usable photographs before we will build it a page, because a page with one picture and no traits tells you nothing you could not get from a search result, and generating hundreds of thousands of those is precisely the practice that got the previous version of this site deleted.

So the species above without a link are not errors and they are not omissions. They are real, accepted plants that we cannot yet document to the standard we hold ourselves to, and the count in the photographs column is exactly how far short we fall.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. Accepted names, authorities, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. Photograph counts, restricted to CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA. Retrieved 2026-06-27.