Comptonia peregrina Medicinal Plants Flowering is heaviest in late

Flowering is heaviest in late spring

Baptisia arachnifera is the most unique member of the genus

making a 15" wide rosette

even when they aren't in flower

gather your neighbors for the fragrant flowering ritual

Comptonia peregrina Medicinal Plants Flowering is heaviest in lateI am not a fern I am a shrub and a fragrant one at that! The common name, sweet fern, sums up its namesake well. Comptonia hails from Canada south to northern Georgia, where it is usually found on sandy dry soils in full sun as well as under an open canopy of sparse pine trees. The thick, fern like, green leaves are deliciously fragrant, as is common in its family, Myricaceae think wax myrtles. Comptonia peregrina spreads by short stolons, so don't