Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Kalmia latifolia I.. Sp. PL 391. 1753
An irregularly branched shrub or small tree, with sparingly glandular-pubescent twigs and clammy-pubescent inflorescence; leaf -blades elliptic or oval, varying to broadest above or below the middle, mostly 5-8 cm. long, acute or slightly acuminate at both ends, dark-green above, pale-green beneath, with the midrib prominent beneath, manifestly petioled; clusters usually many-flowered; pedicels slender, villous, or merely puberulent in age, 1-3.5 cm. long; calvx 7-8 mm. wide, the lobes oblong, oblong-ovate, or lanceolate, usually glandular-ciliate,j acute; corolla pink or white, 2-2.5 cm. wide, sticky; filaments finely pubescent, at least to above the middle; ovary glandular; capsules spheroidal, 5-7 mm. wide, glandularviscid.
Type locality: Maryland.
Distribution: New Brunswick and Ontario to Florida and Louisiana.
- bibliographic citation
- John Kunkel Small, NathanieI Lord Britton, Per Axel Rydberg, LeRoy Abrams. 1914. ERICALES, CLETHRACEAE, LENNOACEAE, PTROLACEAE, MONOTROPACEAE, ERICACEAE, UVA-URSI. North American flora. vol 29(1). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
