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
   - common polypody, adder's fern, wall fern, golden maidenhair, golden polypody, Polypodium vulgare 
2. Deciduous shrub of eastern North America with sweet scented fernlike leaves and tiny white flowers
   - Comptonia peregrina, Comptonia asplenifolia

Derived forms: sweet ferns

Type of: bush, polypody, shrub

Part of: Comptonia, genus Comptonia

Encyclopedia: Sweet fern

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