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Kalmia latifolia, the mountain laurel, [3] calico-bush, [3] or spoonwood, [3] is a flowering plant and one of the 10 species in the genus of Kalmia belonging to the heath(er) family Ericaceae. It is native to the eastern United States. Its range stretches from southern Maine to northern Florida, and west to Indiana and Louisiana.
Mountain laurel blooms showing the conjoined petals The leaves are 2–12 cm long and simple lanceolate. The flowers are white, pink or purple, in corymbs of 10–50, reminiscent of Rhododendron flowers but flatter, with a star-like calyx of five conjoined petals ; each flower is 1–3 cm diameter.
These hefty shrubs love full sun and can be found in tall and wide varieties fit for making hedges, or low-growing varieties you can plant in rocky pathways. BUY IT ($20) 26.
Kalmia microphylla, known as alpine laurel, [2] [3] bog laurel, [4] [5] swamp-laurel, [6] western bog-laurel [7] or western laurel, [3] is a species of Kalmia of the family Ericaceae. It is native to North America and can be found throughout the western US and western and central Canada below the subarctic.
Dwarf mountain fleabane (Erigeron compositus) grows to 14,000 feet (4,300 m) Dwarf daisy, (E. pygmaeus) Alpine fleabanes, or daisies, are sunflower family members. They include dwarf mountain fleabane, or cut-leaf daisy [ 4 ] : 223 ( Erigeron compositus ), typifies the dwarfed growth pattern of the alpine zone, with disproportionately large ...
Lauraceae: laurel family; Cinnamomum: cinnamon and camphor; Cinnamomum aromaticum: Chinese cinnamon Lauraceae (laurel family) Cinnamomum camphora: camphor tree; camphor laurel Lauraceae (laurel family) 858 Cinnamomum verum: cinnamon tree Lauraceae (laurel family) Laurus: true laurels; Laurus nobilis: poet's laurel; sweet bay laurel Lauraceae ...