Comptonia peregrina, Sweet Fern Size:1.16 qt brick-orange-red flowers in winter

brick-orange-red flowers in winter

This is a cross between our native Western dogwood

Mature size: clumping

35' tall and wide

and the fall color a brilliant glowing orange and red—nothing dull here

Comptonia peregrina, Sweet Fern Size:1.16 qt brick-orange-red flowers in winterEvergreen, C. peregrina has fern like leaves that also smell sweetly of fern. It has an exotic look but is eminently useful as a bank stabilizer or a colonizer in areas of very poor soil. The yellowish green spring flowers don't amount to much, but the nutlets that they give way to are interesting in combination with its unusual foliage. It comes from poor, gravelly infertile soils of eastern North America. Mature size: 2 5 ft T x 2 4 ft W Minimum