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Comptonia peregrina

Sweetfern

• »  Colonizing ground cover
• »  Sweet smelling green foliage
• »  Great for sandy dry areas
• »  Native to Eastern North America

• Category:Shrub
• Hardiness Zone:2-8
• Height:2-4 ft
• Spread:4-8 ft
• Bloom Color: Green Shades
• Foliage Color: Green Shades

You can abuse this tough, tenacious native all you want, but you'll be hard pressed to break its spirit! Upright growing with deep green, lustrous, sweet scented, fern-like foliage, Sweetfern colonizes by spreading stolons and will hold ground in the sandiest, most infertile soils you can imagine, and thrive where other ornamentals fail.