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

brick-orange-red flowers in winter

introduced by Mike Dirr

The fall color is purple-orange

multi-stemmed clematis winds its way through a (compatibly colored or perhaps less interesting) shrub

Upright habit

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