sweet fern

Noun sweet fern has 2 senses

• sweet fern(n = noun.plant) adder's fern, common polypody, golden maidenhair, golden polypody, polypodium vulgare, wall fern - mat-forming lithophytic or terrestrial fern with creeping rootstocks and large pinnatifid fronds found throughout North America and Europe and Africa and east Asia; Array
is a kind of polypody

• sweet fern(n = noun.plant) comptonia asplenifolia, comptonia peregrina - deciduous shrub of eastern North America with sweet scented fernlike leaves and tiny white flowers; Array
is a member of comptonia, genus comptonia
is a kind of bush, shrub