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| color = lightgreen
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|familia=Ericaceae
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| name = Bog-laurel
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|genus=Kalmia
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| image = Kalmia polifolia.jpg
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|species=polifolia
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|taxo_author=Wangenh.
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| image_caption = Bog laurel (''Kalmia polifolia'')
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|common_name=Bog-laurel
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| regnum = [[Plantae]]
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|habit=shrub
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| divisio = [[Flowering plant|Magnoliophyta]]
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|poisonous=yes, see text
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| classis = [[Magnoliopsida]]
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|lifespan=perennial
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| ordo = [[Ericales]]
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|features=evergreen
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| familia = [[Ericaceae]]
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| genus = ''[[Kalmia]]''
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| species = '''''K. polifolia'''''
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| binomial = ''Kalmia polifolia''
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'''Bog-laurel''' (''Kalmia polifolia'') is an evergreen [[shrub]] of cold acidic bogs, in the family [[Ericaceae]]. It is native to north-eastern [[North America]], from [[Newfoundland (island)|Newfoundland]] to [[Hudson Bay]] southwards.
  
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'''Bog-laurel''' (''Kalmia polifolia'') is an evergreen [[shrub]] of cold acidic bogs, in the family [[Ericaceae]]. It is native to north-eastern [[North America]], from [[Newfoundland]] to [[Hudson Bay]] southwards.
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Its leaves are arranged oppositely on the branch. They are waxy with an entire, revolute margin. The base of the [[Petiole (botany)|petiole]] is pressed against the stem. Below each leaf base there are ridges, where it appears as though a part of the leaf is curled around the circumference of the stem. This is especially noticeable lower on the plant.
  
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==Features==
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Bog-laurel contains [[grayanotoxin]], which when ingested lowers [[blood pressure]], and may cause respiratory problems, dizziness, vomiting, or [[diarrhea]].<ref name=Pojar>{{cite book |coauthors=Paul Alaback, Joe Antos, Trevor Goward, Ken Lertzman, [[Andy MacKinnon]], [[Jim Pojar]], Rosamund Pojar, Andrew Reed, Nancy Turner, Dale Vitt |editor=Jim Pojar and Andy MacKinnon |title=Plants of the Pacific Northwest Coast |edition=Revised |year=2004 |publisher=[[Lone Pine Publishing]]|location=[[Vancouver]] |language=[[English language]] |isbn=978-1-55105-530-5 |page=53}}</ref>
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Its leaves are arranged oppositely on the branch. They are waxy with an entire, revolute margin. The base of the petiole is pressed against the stem. Below each leaf base there are ridges, where it appears as though a part of the leaf is curled around the circumference of the stem. This is especially noticeable lower on the plant.
 
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[[Category:Flora of North America]]
 
  
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Kalmia polifolia, Wang. (K. glauca, Ait.). Low, straggling shrub, to 2 ft.: lvs. almost sessile, oval to linear-oblong, obtuse, revolute at the margins, 1/2-1 ½in.- long: fls. in simple terminal umbels, slender-pedicelled, ½-3/4in. across, rose-colored or purplish. May, June. Newfoundland to Pa. and in the rocky mts. from Sitka to Calif. var. microphylla, Rehd. (K. microphylla, Heller), is the alpine form of the rocky mts., growing only a few inches high, and with very small lvs., 1/2in. or less long. var. rosmarinifolia, Rehd. (K. glauca var. rosma- rinifolia, Pursh), has narrow, linear-oblong, strongly revolute lvs.
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Image:Upload.png| photo 1
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==References==
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*[[Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture]], by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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<!--- xxxxx  *Flora: The Gardener's Bible, by Sean Hogan. Global Book Publishing, 2003. ISBN 0881925381  -->
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<!--- xxxxx  *American Horticultural Society: A-Z Encyclopedia of Garden Plants, by Christopher Brickell, Judith D. Zuk. 1996. ISBN 0789419432  -->
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<!--- xxxxx  *Sunset National Garden Book. Sunset Books, Inc., 1997. ISBN 0376038608  -->
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Latest revision as of 23:07, 8 April 2010


Kalmia polifolia.jpg


Plant Characteristics
Habit   shrub

Lifespan: ⌛ perennial
Poisonous: ☠ yes, see text
Cultivation
Features: ✓ evergreen
Scientific Names

Ericaceae >

Kalmia >

polifolia >

Wangenh. >


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Bog-laurel (Kalmia polifolia) is an evergreen shrub of cold acidic bogs, in the family Ericaceae. It is native to north-eastern North America, from Newfoundland to Hudson Bay southwards.

Its leaves are arranged oppositely on the branch. They are waxy with an entire, revolute margin. The base of the petiole is pressed against the stem. Below each leaf base there are ridges, where it appears as though a part of the leaf is curled around the circumference of the stem. This is especially noticeable lower on the plant.

Bog-laurel contains grayanotoxin, which when ingested lowers blood pressure, and may cause respiratory problems, dizziness, vomiting, or diarrhea.[1]


Read about Bog-laurel in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture 

Kalmia polifolia, Wang. (K. glauca, Ait.). Low, straggling shrub, to 2 ft.: lvs. almost sessile, oval to linear-oblong, obtuse, revolute at the margins, 1/2-1 ½in.- long: fls. in simple terminal umbels, slender-pedicelled, ½-3/4in. across, rose-colored or purplish. May, June. Newfoundland to Pa. and in the rocky mts. from Sitka to Calif. var. microphylla, Rehd. (K. microphylla, Heller), is the alpine form of the rocky mts., growing only a few inches high, and with very small lvs., 1/2in. or less long. var. rosmarinifolia, Rehd. (K. glauca var. rosma- rinifolia, Pursh), has narrow, linear-oblong, strongly revolute lvs.


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Cultivation

Propagation

Pests and diseases

Varieties

Gallery

  • photo 1

  • photo 2

  • photo 3

References

  1. ↑ Jim Pojar and Andy MacKinnon, ed (2004) (in English language). Plants of the Pacific Northwest Coast (Revised ed.). Vancouver: Lone Pine Publishing. p. 53. ISBN 978-1-55105-530-5. 

External links


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