Comptonia peregrina Medicinal Plants gather your neighbors for the

gather your neighbors for the fragrant flowering ritual

Flowering is heaviest in late spring

as a sedative

Cypripedium tibeticum makes a small 8" tall clump

Comptonia peregrina Medicinal Plants gather your neighbors for theI 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