Common name
English: Sweet Fern
German: Farnmyrte
Classification
Kingdom: Plantae (2715)
Phylum: Tracheophyta (2630)
Class: Magnoliopsida (2217)
Order: Myricales (6)
Family: Myricaceae (6)(family description)
Genus: Comptonia (1)
Epithet: peregrina (L.) Coult. (2)
Synonyms: Myrica aspleniifolia L., Myrica peregrina (L.) Kuntze
aspleniifolia => leaves resembling the genus Asplenium
peregrina => strange, foreign
Characteristics
Climate: temperate
Habitat: mesophytic
Habit: shrub
External links
Check for Comptonia peregrina at
World Flora Online, GBIF or IPNI- [509] Comptonia peregrina - Plants For A Future database
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