Comptonia Peregrina (Noun)
Meaning
Deciduous shrub of eastern North America with sweet scented fernlike leaves and tiny white flowers.
Classification
Nouns denoting plants.
Examples
- Comptonia peregrina is often found growing in dry acidic soils of eastern North America, particularly in wooded areas and along sandy ridges.
- The scent of Comptonia peregrina leaves is often compared to that of sweet fern due to its faintly anise-like and wintergreen-like aromas.
- Comptonia peregrina has dense fern-like foliage with narrow lance-shaped leaves that are alternate, highly toothed, and up to 15 cm long.
- In early summer tiny white flowers are produced by Comptonia peregrina in several spherical clusters, typically hidden among its leaves.
- Comptonia peregrina can grow into an attractive, shrub about 3 feet high with an irregular woody base and a slightly wider rounded crown.