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May-2013
May-2013
Plants of New Hampshire: Sweet Fern
Comptonia peregrina (L.) J.M. Coult.is a small shrub growing, in this case, along disturbed roadsides in New Hampshire. In two pictures you can see the red stigmas of the female flowers. In the others you can see the old leaves and new, male flowers borne in catkins. When the leaves are crushed they have a very sweet smell. It is in the plant family Myricaceae.
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