Sweet Fern

Sweet Fern

Sweet Fern Myrica asplenifolia is a small woody shrub with lobed leaves that smell sweet when crushed. The leaf lobes look a bit fern-like which gives this flowering plant its common name. The flowers are of one sex only. Male flowers are in catkins and female flowers form spiky-looking clusters. Sweet Fern grows under trees on dry soil. [CH] {WP}