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|accepted_name=Comptonia peregrina
|accepted_authority=(Linnaeus) J. M. Coulter
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Mem. Torrey Bot. Club
|place=5: 127. 1894
|year=1894
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|common_names=Sweet-fern;comptonie voyageuse
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
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|code=F
|label=Selected by author to be illustrated
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|code=W
|label=Weedy
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|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Liquidambar peregrina
|authority=Linnaeus
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|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Comptonia ceterach
|authority=Mirbel
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|name=Comptonia peregrina var. asplenifolia
|authority=(Linnaeus) Fernald
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|name=Comptonia peregrina var. tomentosa
|authority=A. Chevalier
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|name=Myrica asplenifolia
|authority=(Linnaeus) Kuntze
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|name=Myrica comptonia
|authority=unknown
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|name=Myrica peregrina
|authority=unknown
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|hierarchy=Myricaceae;Comptonia;Comptonia peregrina
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Myricaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Comptonia]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Comptonia peregrina]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 3
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Shrubs,</b> to 1.5 m, forming rhizomatous colonies. <b>Branchlets</b> red-brown to gray, pilose to villose, sometimes puberulent. <b>Leaves</b>: stipules nearly cordate, long-acuminate. <b>Leaf</b> blade very aromatic when crushed, 3-15.5 × 0.3-2.9 cm, lobes alternate to nearly opposite, base truncate, cuneate to attenuate, or oblique, apex acute; surfaces abaxially pale gray-green, densely pilose to puberulent, adaxially dark green, densely pilose to glabrate, gland-dotted, especially adaxially. <b>Inflorescences</b>: staminate in clusters at ends of branches, elongating to 5 cm, bracts broadly ovate to trullate, margins ciliate, apex acute to long-acuminate, abaxially gland-dotted; pistillate to 5 mm at anthesis, elongating in fruit to 2 cm, bracteoles to 1.3 cm, pilose, gland-dotted. <b>Fruits</b> 2.5-5.5 mm.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering spring, fruiting summer.
|habitat=Dry, sterile, sandy to rocky soils in pinelands or pine barrens, clearings, or edges of woodlots
|elevation=0-1800 m
|distribution=N.B.;N.S.;Ont.;P.E.I.;Que.;Conn.;Del.;Ga.;Ill.;Ind.;Ky.;Maine;Md.;Mass.;Mich.;Minn.;N.H.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;Ohio;Pa.;R.I.;S.C.;Vt.;Va.;W.Va.;Wis.
|discussion=<p><i>Comptonia peregrina</i> has been reported from Tennessee (Scott County), but I have not seen any specimens.</p><!--
--><p>Many Native American tribes used different parts of <i>Comptonia peregrina</i> variously: as an incense for ritual ceremonies; for medicinal purposes; as a stimulant or tonic; as a food seasoning; and as a poison (D. A. Moerman 1986).</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Comptonia peregrina
|author=
|authority=(Linnaeus) J. M. Coulter
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Comptonia ceterach;Comptonia peregrina var. asplenifolia;Comptonia peregrina var. tomentosa;Myrica asplenifolia;Myrica comptonia;Myrica peregrina
|basionyms=Liquidambar peregrina
|family=Myricaceae
|phenology=Flowering spring, fruiting summer.
|habitat=Dry, sterile, sandy to rocky soils in pinelands or pine barrens, clearings, or edges of woodlots
|elevation=0-1800 m
|distribution=N.B.;N.S.;Ont.;P.E.I.;Que.;Conn.;Del.;Ga.;Ill.;Ind.;Ky.;Maine;Md.;Mass.;Mich.;Minn.;N.H.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;Ohio;Pa.;R.I.;S.C.;Vt.;Va.;W.Va.;Wis.
|reference=None
|publication title=Mem. Torrey Bot. Club
|publication year=1894
|special status=Endemic;Selected by author to be illustrated;Weedy
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/8f726806613d60c220dc4493de13607dd3150896/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V3/V3_570.xml
|genus=Comptonia
|species=Comptonia peregrina
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