Comptonia peregrina Wet Shade Plants It is a display that

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

but is strangely absent from most American gardens

a few days after each summer rain

The flowers attract an array of butterflies and bees

Comptonia peregrina Wet Shade Plants It is a display thatI 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