sweet fern

Noun
  1. Mat-forming lithophytic or terrestrial fern with creeping rootstocks and large pinnatifid fronds found throughout North America and Europe and Africa and east Asia (synset 113194780)
    is a type of: polypody - any of numerous ferns of the genus Polypodium
    same as: adder's fern, common polypody, golden maidenhair, golden polypody, polypodium vulgare, wall fern
  2. Deciduous shrub of eastern North America with sweet scented fernlike leaves and tiny white flowers (synset 111762779)
    is a type of: bush, shrub - a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems
    belongs to: comptonia, genus comptonia - one species: sweet fern
    same as: comptonia asplenifolia, comptonia peregrina

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