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Comptonia peregrina

Common Name: Sweet Fern

With attractive lacey foliage that is very sweetly scented this makes an attractive, colonizing, small shrub that should be planted where it can be seen closely and easily touched to release its fragrance into the air. It has a long history of medicinal uses but is seen less frequently than deserved outside the North East.

Flower Color: Green
Zones: 2-8
Growth Habit: Shrub
Height: 2-5
Spread: 4-6
Light Needs: Sun-Shade
Flowering Season: Late Summer
Leaf Color: green

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