Comptonia peregrina Wet Shade Plants This Southwest US native has

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

If that's not enough

a few days after each summer rain

but is strangely absent from most American gardens

since it takes the salt as well as any margarita

Comptonia peregrina Wet Shade Plants This Southwest US native hasI 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