Calliphysalis carpenteri(Riddell) M.Whitson

Carpenter's groundcherry

WFO wfo-0001019970 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 5 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 5 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Calliphysalis carpenteri, photographed by Lauren McLaurin
fig. a Lauren McLaurin, CC BY 4.0 / 2020-08-08 / obs. 88933715
Calliphysalis carpenteri, photographed by Lauren McLaurin
fig. b Lauren McLaurin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 88933539
Calliphysalis carpenteri, photographed by Lauren McLaurin
fig. c Lauren McLaurin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 91084111
Calliphysalis carpenteri, photographed by Lauren McLaurin
fig. d Lauren McLaurin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 88933587
Calliphysalis carpenteri, photographed by Lauren McLaurin
fig. e Lauren McLaurin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 88933766
Calliphysalis carpenteri, photographed by Lauren McLaurin
fig. f Lauren McLaurin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 91084134
Calliphysalis carpenteri, photographed by Lauren McLaurin
fig. g Lauren McLaurin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 80086421
Calliphysalis carpenteri, photographed by Alison Northup
fig. h Alison Northup, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 77114115

Every figure is a research-grade observation under CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA, rehosted with the photographer’s name, the licence and the observation it came from. Photographs under a NonCommercial licence are excluded from this site and are never stored, which costs us a great many pictures and is not negotiable.

Also published as 2 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Physalis carpenteri Riddell
  • Physalis carpenteri Riddell ex Rydb.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. USDA PLANTS Database. common name, checklist symbol PHCA16. public domain. Retrieved 2026-07-13.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite. It has no native range either: Kew's checklist does not cover this taxon.