sweetfern

I lay me down on my pallet stuffed with sweetfern on the porch of my house, the house I thought of as mine.

Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009

I lay me down on my pallet stuffed with sweetfern on the porch of my house, the house I thought of as mine.

Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009

I lay me down on my pallet stuffed with sweetfern on the porch of my house, the house I thought of as mine.

Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009

Peepers, sweetfern, woodcock song– these things make me nostalgic…

Working the young one 2009

So many blossoms all around, so much blossom fragrance in the air, and every day a new bird singing, sweetfern and strawberries in my garden and violets in the grass—yes, this is May.

all a-May asakiyume 2008

Lily of the valley, lilac, sweetfern (smells like cinnamon, a little), Siberian olive (so they call it, or Russian olive), and that dusty sweet sharp smell that I associate with raspberry canes.

miscellany asakiyume 2008

The sweetfern is changed mostly to russet, but still retains its wild and delightful fragrance when pressed in the hand.

Passages from the American Notebooks, Volume 2. Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834

"Our Old Home," he had little strength for any employment more arduous than reading, or than walking his accustomed path among the pines and sweetfern on the hill behind The Wayside, known to his family as the Mount of Vision.

The Dolliver Romance Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834

It is also indicated that the species is "uncommon to rare, according to Charles Covell" and later in uncredited information that 'larvae feed on bracken, sweetfern, goldenrod, st. johnswort, alder, ash, birch, willow.

What's That Bug? 2008