Comptonia peregrina Wet Shade Plants Keep it away from larger

Keep it away from larger hostas that can shade it out

This Southwest US native has round green leaves clothing the 5' tall woody stems

a few days after each summer rain

If that's not enough

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