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
Purchase options for Sweetfern
- Size: #1 12-15"
- Status: BeautiFULL
- Availability: In Stock
$35.00
- Size: #3 12-15"
- Status: Sheared and/or Dormant
- Availability: In Stock
$83.00
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.