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Comptonia peregrina

sweet fern

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

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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.

Attributes
• Fragrant
• Great Foliage
• Native
Foliage Color
• Green
Maintenance and Care
• Drought Tolerant
• Low Maintenance
• Mass Planting
• Vigorous
Flower Color
• Yellow
Exposure
• Full Sun
• Partial Sun
Habit
• Ground Cover
• Trailing
• Upright
Soil Moisture
• Dry Soil
• Average Water
• Moist, Well-Drained
Growing & Maintenance Tips for Comptonia peregrina

Thrives in well-drained soil, sun to part shade. Tolerates wet, sandy, or poor soils, wind, drought, and seashore conditions. Difficult to transplant but spreads rapidly when established.