Comptonia's a monotypic genus (containing only Comptonia peregrina) in the family Myricaceae, order Fagales. It's native to eastern North America, from southern Quebec south to the extreme north of Georgia, and west to Minnesota. The common name's Sweetfern or Sweet-fern, a confusing name as it isn't a fern. It's a deciduous shrub, growing to 1.5 m tall. The leaves of the plant are linear to lanceolate, 3-15 cm long and 0.3-3 cm broad, with a modified dentate, pinnately lobed margin; they give… (More on Sweetfern)