sweet fern

Noun

• deciduous shrub of eastern North America with sweet scented fernlike leaves and tiny white flowers

• mat-forming lithophytic or terrestrial fern with creeping rootstocks and large pinnatifid fronds found throughout North America and Europe and Africa and east Asia

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  Comptonia peregrina , Comptonia asplenifolia , common polypody , adder's fern , wall fern , golden maidenhair , golden polypody , Polypodium vulgare