Sweetfern (COMPTONIA PEREGRINA) - 1 gallon

Upright, deciduous shrub which features simple, narrow, lustrous, pinnatifid, deeply notched, olive to dark green leaves. Insignificant, yellowish green flowers appear in spring and give way to greenish brown, burr-like nutlets. A native shrub of eastern North America which most often occurs in poor, sandy or gravelly, infertile soils, such as along roadsides. Fixes its own nitrogen.