#1498 most planted

Comptonia peregrina

Sweet fern · also Fern-gale, Sweet-fern, Sweetfern

trees mapped

0.00%

of all named trees

cities

2.0 in

median trunk (5 cm, 1 measured)

1.0 yr

median age (100% have a planting date)

Comptonia peregrina is a flowering plant in the family Myricaceae, native to eastern North America. It grows as a subshrub or shrub.

Where it grows

Trees in each city's inventory, with the share of that city's named trees this species accounts for.

Terrestrial ecoregions where this species is native. Trees in the dataset mostly stand well outside it.