Physalis hederifolia is a species of flowering plant in the nightshade family known by the common name ivyleaf groundcherry.

It is native to the southwestern United States and northern Mexico, where it can be found in rocky, dry desert and mountain habitat.

The gray-green oval leaves are 2 to 4 centimeters long and have smooth or bluntly toothed edges.

The five-lobed calyx of sepals at the base of the flower enlarges as the fruit develops, becoming an inflated, veined nearly spherical structure 2 or 3 centimeters long which contains the berry.

[1] The Zuni people boil the fruit of the fendleri variety in small quantities of water, crush it and use it as a condiment.