Sweet Fern adds grace and quiet beauty to the garden with its soft, fern-like leaves and delicate branching. Mildly fragrant, this beautiful, adaptable shrub establishes easily and colonizes in most soil conditions.
Try a row of Sweet Fern along a driveway or as a border to a native plant garden. The pollinators will love you! Sweet Fern is a larval host for the Gray Hairstreak butterfly and Apple Sphinx and other moth species.
Sweet Fern
SKU: CP01-SS
$32.00Price
1 Gallon
- Latin: Comptonia peregrina
- Pollinator value: Medium
- Wetland status: UPL
- Height: 2-5 feet; 4-6-foot spread
- Light: Full sun to part shade
- Soil: Dry, well-drained; tolerates moist
- Bloom: Copper, gold spring catkin
- Fruit: Brownish-green nut, fall
- Foliage: Deciduous, fern-like, coppery fall, fragrant when crushed
- Landscape: Native garden, hedge, slope and hard-to-grow areas.
- Resistance: Deer, drought, wet
- More information and native range here