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− | | color = lightgreen | + | |familia=Ericaceae |
− | | name = Sheep-laurel | + | |genus=Kalmia |
− | | regnum = [[Plantae]] | + | |species=angustifolia |
− | | divisio = [[Flowering plant|Magnoliophyta]] | + | |taxo_author=L. |
− | | classis = [[Magnoliopsida]] | + | |common_name=Sheep-laurel |
− | | ordo = [[Ericales]] | + | |features=flowers |
− | | familia = [[Ericaceae]] | + | |flowers=pink |
− | | genus = ''[[Kalmia]]'' | + | |Temp Metric=°F |
− | | species = '''''K. angustifolia''''' | + | |jumpin=If this plant info box on watering; zones; height; etc. is mostly empty you can click on the edit tab and fill in the blanks! |
− | | binomial = ''Kalmia angustifolia'' | + | |image=Kalmia angustifolia Rubra.jpg |
− | | binomial_authority = [[Carolus Linnaeus|L.]] | + | |image_width=240 |
| + | |image_caption=Sheep-laurel |
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| + | '''''Kalmia angustifolia''''' ('''Sheep-laurel''') is a [[flowering plant]] in the family [[Ericaceae]], which is often used like an [[ornamental plant]]. It has attractive small, deep crimson-pink flowers that occur early summer. The low shrub, a native plant of North America, may be only six inches high, or it may attain three feet. The narrow [[evergreen]] leaves, pale on the underside, have a tendency to form groups of threes, standing upright when newly put forth, but bent downward with the weight of age. A peculiarity of the plant is that clusters of leaves usually terminate the woody stem, for the flowers grow in whorls or in clusters at the side of it below. |
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− | '''''Kalmia angustifolia''''' ('''Sheep-laurel''') is a [[flowering plant]] in the family [[Ericaceae]], which is often used like an [[ornamental plant]]. It has attractive small, deep crimson-pink flowers that occur early summer. The low shrub may be only six inches high, or it may attain three feet. The narrow evergreen leaves, pale on the underside, have a tendency to form groups of threes, standing upright when newly put forth, but bent downward with the weight of age. A peculiarity of the plant is that clusters of leaves usually terminate the woody stem, for the flowers grow in whorls or in clusters at the side of it below. | + | It is also known as '''Lamb-kill''', '''Wicky''', '''Calf-kill''', '''Sheep-poison''', '''Narrow-leaved Laurel''' and '''Sheep Laurel''', its folk-names testifying chiefly to the plant's toxicity in pasture. |
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| + | Kalmia angustifolia, linn. sheep-laurel. lambkill. wicky. Shrub, to 3 ft.: lvs. petioled, usually oblong, obtuse, light green above, pale beneath, 1-2 ½ in. long: corymb lateral, many-fld., compound or simple; fls. 1 1/3— ½ in. across, purple or crimson; sepals ovate, glandular. June, July. From Newfoundland and Hudson Bay to Ga. B.M. 331. BM. 445.—There are varieties with light purple fls., var. rosea, Hort.; with crimson fls., var. robra, Lodd. (var. hirsuta, voss). L.B.C. 6:502; with white fls., var. Candida, Fern.; with ovate or oval lvs., var. ovata, Pursh, and of dwarf habit, var. pumila, Bosse (var. nana, Hort.). |
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− | It is also known as '''Lamb-kill''', '''Wicky''', '''Calf-kill''', '''Sheep-poison''', '''Narrow-leaved Laurel''' and '''Sheep Laurel''', its folk-names testifying chiefly to the plant's toxicity in pasture.
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| ==References== | | ==References== |
− | * {{cite book | author=[[Neltje Blanchan|Blanchan, Neltje]] | title=[[Wild Flowers Worth Knowing]] | year=[[2005]] | publisher=[[Project Gutenberg|Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation]]}} | + | <references/> |
| + | *[[Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture]], by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963 |
| + | <!--- xxxxx *Flora: The Gardener's Bible, by Sean Hogan. Global Book Publishing, 2003. ISBN 0881925381 --> |
| + | <!--- xxxxx *American Horticultural Society: A-Z Encyclopedia of Garden Plants, by Christopher Brickell, Judith D. Zuk. 1996. ISBN 0789419432 --> |
| + | <!--- xxxxx *Sunset National Garden Book. Sunset Books, Inc., 1997. ISBN 0376038608 --> |
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− | [[Category:Flora of the United States]]
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