Ground cherries tend to have fuzzy leaves, while the tomatillos look as pictured above… I often have these come up in my gardens… the ‘mater may not be as large as the cultivated version… but I eat them anyway. There’s also a cultivated version of the ground-cherry… try searching ‘cape gooseberry’.

I also have seen specimens of black nightshade (which can be poisonous) that have a leaf and growth habit very similar to ground cherry. The berries on nightshade are pea-size and do not have the outer husk of Physalis species.

Ground cherries, so far as I know, just grow wild in the U.S., and are fairly common in Georgia. Tomatilla is a cultivated crop grown extensively in Latin American, and available at most farmers’ markets.

One species of Physalis is the tomatillo. A number of the species in this genus are called ‘ground cherry.’ I would have called this a ground cherry, but I’m not expert enough to identify what exact species of Physalis it is.

Looks like tomatillo. They tend to weediness, so there’s generally little need to keep more than 1 or 2…. Unless you have a use for a lot of tomatillos…