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Kalmia latifolia (Mountain-laurel, Spoonwood) is a flowering plant in the family Ericaceae, native to the eastern United States, from southern Maine south to northern Florida, and west to Indiana and Louisiana. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ...
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Divisions Green algae land plants (embryophytes) non-vascular embryophytes Hepatophyta - liverworts Anthocerophyta - hornworts Bryophyta - mosses vascular plants (tracheophytes) seedless vascular plants Lycopodiophyta - clubmosses Equisetophyta - horsetails Pteridophyta - true ferns Psilotophyta - whisk ferns Ophioglossophyta - adderstongue ferns seed plants (spermatophytes) †Pteridospermatophyta - seed ferns Pinophyta - conifers Cycadophyta - cycads Ginkgophyta - ginkgo Gnetophyta - gnetae Magnoliophyta...
Classes Magnoliopsida - Dicots Liliopsida - Monocots The flowering plants or angiosperms are the most widespread group of land plants. ...
Magnoliopsida is the botanical name for a class: this name is formed by replacing the termination -aceae in the name Magnoliaceae by the termination -opsida (Art 16 of the ICBN). ...
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Genera See text The plant Family Ericaceae (Heath Family) or ericaceous plants are mostly lime-hating or calcifuge plants that thrive in acid soils. ...
Species See text Kalmia is a genus of about 7 species of evergreen shrubs from 0. ...
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Carl Linnaeus, Latinized as Carolus Linnaeus, also known after his ennoblement as , (May 23, 1707[1] – January 10, 1778), was a Swedish botanist, physician and zoologist[2] who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of nomenclature. ...
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Binomial name Sophora secundiflora (Gomez-Ortega) Lag. ...
Classes Magnoliopsida - Dicots Liliopsida - Monocots The flowering plants or angiosperms are the most widespread group of land plants. ...
Genera See text The plant Family Ericaceae (Heath Family) or ericaceous plants are mostly lime-hating or calcifuge plants that thrive in acid soils. ...
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It is an evergreen shrub growing to 3-9 m tall. The leaves are 3-12 cm long and 1-4 cm wide. Its flowers are star-shaped, ranging from red to pink to white, and occurring in clusters. It blooms between May and June. All parts of the plant are poisonous. Roots are fibrous, matted.[1] ‹ The template below (Expand) is being considered for deletion. ...
A broom shrub in flower A shrub or bush is a horticultural rather than strictly botanical category of woody plant, distinguished from a tree by its multiple stems and lower height, usually less than 6 m tall. ...
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A Phalaenopsis flower Rudbeckia fulgida A flower, (<Old French flo(u)r<Latin florem<flos), also known as a bloom or blossom, is the reproductive structure found in flowering plants (plants of the division Magnoliophyta, also called angiosperms). ...
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The plant is naturally found on rocky slopes and mountainous forest areas. The plant often grows in large thickets, covering large areas of forest floor. In North America it becomes a tree on the mountains of the Carolinas but is a shrub further north.[1]
It is also known as Ivybush, Calico Bush, Spoonwood (because native Americans used to make their spoons out of it), Sheep Laurel, Lambkill and Clamoun.
Mountain-laurel is the state flower of Connecticut and Pennsylvania. This is a list of U.S. state flowers: External link Juelies State Flower Garden of Gifs See also Lists of U.S. state insignia Categories: Lists of flowers | U.S. state insignia ...
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The plant was first recorded in America in 1624, but it was named after Pehr Kalm, who sent samples to Linnaeus in the 18th century. Events January 24 - Alfonso Mendez, appointed by Pope Gregory XV as Prelate of Ethiopia, arrives at Massawa from Goa. ...
Pehr Kalm (March 6, 1716–November 16, 1779) (He is referred to in the Finnish language as Pietari Kalm) was an explorer, a botanist, a naturalist, and an agricultural economist from what is now Finland. ...
Carl Linnaeus, Latinized as Carolus Linnaeus, also known after his ennoblement as , (May 23, 1707[1] – January 10, 1778), was a Swedish botanist, physician and zoologist[2] who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of nomenclature. ...
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Description - Bark: Dark brown tinged with red, furrowed and scaly. Branchlets at first light reddish green, downy, later smooth, red green and shining, finally all a bright red brown.
- Wood: Brown tinged with red; heavy, hard, rather brittle, close-grained. Sp. gr., 0.7160; weight of cu. ft., 44.62 lbs.
- Winter buds: Leaf-buds naked, forming in midsummer in the axils of leaves just below those from which the clusters of flower-buds are produced by which they are almost covered. The tip of the branch dies when these axillary buds are formed. Inner scales enlarge with the growing shoot, becoming an inch long before falling.
- Leaves: Alternate, or in pairs, or in threes, simple, persistent, oblong, three to four inches long, one to one and a half inches wide, wedge-shaped at base, entire, acute or rounded at apex and tipped with a callous point. They come out of the bud conduplicate; each leaf enclosed by the one directly below it, slightly tinged with pink and covered with glandular white hairs, when full grown are thick and rigid, dark shining green above, pale yellow green beneath; midrib broad, yellow, rounded above and below, veins obscure. They remain green and fall during the second summer. Petioles are short, stout, slightly flattened.
- Flowers: Flowers appear in May or June from buds which are formed in autumn in the axils of the upper leaves in the form of slender cones of downy green scales. These buds usually develop two or more lateral branches, the whole forming a compound many-flowered corymb four or five inches in diameter and overlapped at the flowering time by the leafy branches of the year. Pedicels are red or green, hairy or scurfy and furnished with two bracts at base and developed from the axils of large bracts.
- Calyx: Five-parted; lobes imbricate in bud, narrow, acute, covered with glutinous hairs. Disk prominent, ten-lobed.
- Corolla: Saucer-shaped, rose colored, white, or pink. Tube short with ten tiny sacs just below the five-parted limb; lobes ovate, acute, imbricate in bud. The border is marked on the inner surface with a waving rosy line and is slightly purple above the sac. The buds are ten-ribbed from the sacs to the acute apex of the bud.
- Stamens: Ten, hypogynous, shorter than the corolla, at first held in the sacs of the corolla; filaments thread-like; anthers oblong, adnate, thwo-celled; cells opening by a short longitudinal pore.
- Pistil: Ovary superior, five-celled; style thread-like, exserted; stigma capitate; ovules many in each cell.
- Fruit: Woody capsule, many seeded, depressed-globular, slightly five-lobed, five-celled, five-valved. Crowned with the persistent style, surrounded at base by the persistent calyx, covered with viscid hairs. Seeds oblong.[1]
The blossoms of this plant are equipped with a most evident device to secure cross-fertilization. Nature has many such arragements, but it is not often that they are so openly displayed. Each flower has ten stamens and each corolla is provided with ten little pockets. When the flower opens each stamen is found bent back with its anther thrust into one of these tiny cavities. In the center of the flower lies the nectar, and when the bee comes to get it, she brushes against the filaments, which fly up and scatter their pollen over her body. She leaves on the stigma of the next flower she visits the pollen he has gathered in the first, and so on he goes from flower to flower.[1] The honey made from this plant is toxic.[2]
Cultivation and uses The plant was originally brought to Europe as an ornamental plant during the 18th century. It is still widely grown for its attractive flowers. Numerous cultivars have been selected with varying flower color. Does not flourish in a limestone country. Petunia This article does not cite any references or sources. ...
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This is one of the most satisfactory shrubs for lawn or garden. When in full bloom it is of surpassing beauty, and its bright evergreen leaves make it conspicuous at any time.[1]
A little known American use of the plant was in the making of arbors for early wooden-works clocks. Mountain-laurel is a foodplant of last resort for gypsy moth caterpillars, utilized only during outbreaks when moth densities are extremely high. Binomial name Lymantria dispar Linnaeus, 1758 The gypsy moth, Lymantria dispar, is a moth in the family Lymantriidae of Eurasian origin. ...
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Toxicity Mountain laurel is poisonous to several different animals, including horses, goats, cattle, sheep, and deer, due to andromedotoxin and arbutin. The green parts of the plant, the flowers, twigs, and pollen are all toxic, and symptoms of toxicity begin to appear about 6 hours following ingestion. Poisoning produces anorexia, repeated swallowing, profuse salivation, depression, uncoordination, vomiting, frequent defecation, watering of the eyes, irregular or difficulty breathing, weakness, cardiac distress, convulsions, coma, and eventually death. Autopsy will show GI irritation and hemorrhage. Grayanotoxin is a toxin found in rhododendrons and other plants of the family Ericaceae. ...
Arbutin is a glycosylated benzoquinone extracted from the bearberry plant genus Arctostaphylos. ...
See also These flowers come into bloom in late spring: Anemone ranunculoides Bloodroot Eastern Redbud Halesia tetraptera Helianthemum apenninum Iris Kalmia latifolia Lasthenia conjugens Lesser celandine Luzula campestris Malus coronaria Chestnut oak Snowflake (plant) Category: ...
These flowers come into bloom in early summer: Helianthemum apenninum Iris Kalmia latifolia Lasthenia conjugens Luzula campestris Malus coronaria Category: ...
References - ^ a b c d e Keeler, Harriet L. (1900). Our Native Trees and How to Identify Them. New York: Charles Scriber's Sons, 186-189.
- ^ Grayanotoxin. Foodborne Pathogenic Microorganisms and Natural Toxins Handbook. US FDA (2001). Retrieved on 2007-05-01.
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Gallery Kalmia latifolia flower buds Image File history File links w:User:Steve nova has identified this as a genus Kalmia (probably K. latifolia) Photo by Jason L. Buberel source File links The following pages link to this file: Kalmia latifolia Flower album ...
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