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Each value Trefle shows for Comptonia peregrina, with what every source says about it. When sources disagree, the strongest source is shown (how sources are ranked). Values imported before sources were recorded one by one are marked Source not recorded.

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Sourced4 Differs from sources1 Source not recorded8 Not on the record7 Sources: TRY Plant Trait Database

Field	Shown	What the sources say
Core
Author	(L.) Coult.	No source recorded	Source not recorded
Bibliography	Mem. Torrey Bot. Club 5: 127 (1894)	No source recorded	Source not recorded
Phylum	Tracheophyta	No source recorded	Source not recorded
Rank	species	No source recorded	Source not recorded
Status	accepted	No source recorded	Source not recorded
Year	1894	No source recorded	Source not recorded
Descriptive
Common name	Sweet fern	No source recorded	Source not recorded
Observations	E. Canada to NC. & E. U.S.A.	No source recorded	Source not recorded
Morphology
Average height	66 cm	66.3 cm · TRY Plant Trait Database · Measured · 20 observations · 2026-10-09 TRY 7.0 datasets 92, 708, 925	Differs from sources
Biological type	phanerophyte	phanerophyte · TRY Plant Trait Database · Measured · 373 observations · 2026-10-09 TRY 7.0 datasets 925	Sourced
Flower color	empty	white · TRY Plant Trait Database · Measured · 1 observation · 2026-10-09 TRY 7.0 datasets 92	Not on the record
Foliage color	empty	green · TRY Plant Trait Database · Measured · 1 observation · 2026-10-09 TRY 7.0 datasets 92	Not on the record
Foliage texture	empty	medium · TRY Plant Trait Database · Measured · 1 observation · 2026-10-09 TRY 7.0 datasets 92	Not on the record
Fruit color	empty	brown · TRY Plant Trait Database · Measured · 1 observation · 2026-10-09 TRY 7.0 datasets 92	Not on the record
Growth rate	empty	Slow · TRY Plant Trait Database · Measured · 1 observation · 2026-10-09 TRY 7.0 datasets 92	Not on the record
Phenology
Duration	perennial	perennial · TRY Plant Trait Database · Measured · 376 observations · 2026-10-09 TRY 7.0 datasets 92, 759, 818, 925	Sourced
Ecology
Nitrogen fixation	High	High · TRY Plant Trait Database · Measured · 4 observations · 2026-10-09 TRY 7.0 datasets 20, 57, 92, 94, 444, 445	Sourced
Cultivation
Minimum root depth	33 cm	33 cm · TRY Plant Trait Database · Measured · 2 observations · 2026-10-09 TRY 7.0 datasets 92, 818	Sourced
Other
Salt tolerance	—	None · TRY Plant Trait Database · Measured · 1 observation · 2026-10-09 TRY 7.0 datasets 92	Not on the record
Shade tolerance	—	None · TRY Plant Trait Database · Measured · 1 observation · 2026-10-09 TRY 7.0 datasets 92	Not on the record

Comptonia peregrina (L.) Coult., 1894 16% complete

Sweet fern

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