Pictured here is one of my all time favorite shrubs. Only one problelm with it, I can't dig it. It has such shallow roots and spreads or peregrinates (hint) through the soil to form a colony. In nature it tolerates xeric, nutrient poor soils such as pine & serpentine barrens. It gets about waist high and the deciduous leaves have a pinnatifid margin. As you walk through the plants on a hot summer day you get a combination of herbal and pine scent. Because of its spreading nature it is great for a beach house or naturalistic landscaping in sun or part shade. I can't dig it, can you name it?

• Posted by tsugajunkie z5 SE WI (My Page) on
  Wed, Aug 17, 11 at 2:58

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• Posted by sam_md z7 MD (My Page) on
  Fri, Aug 19, 11 at 20:29

Tsugajunkie is right its The Sweet Fern. It has a great herbal smell to the foliage like its relative bayberry. It tends to thrive on disturbance and appears from nowhere after a fire. Sam

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