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Comptonia peregrina



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Comptonia peregrina
Sweetfern

Small and green to brown in color, the non-showy flowers on Sweetfern are monoecious. The male flowers are brownish gray cylindrical catkins and the female flowers are yellow-green, oval catkins, borne in late April or May.

 
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