Comptonia peregrina Wet Shade Plants Keep it away from larger

Keep it away from larger hostas that can shade it out

The flowers

thick blue leaves that adorn the 40" tall x 5' wide clump

but is strangely absent from most American gardens

It is a display that lasts several weeks as it turns from green to yellow then amber

Comptonia peregrina Wet Shade Plants Keep it away from largerI 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