Kalmia latifolia 26/4 Restock One caution belongs in every

One caution belongs in every oleander listing: all parts of the plant are poisonous

Like the wild species

hung with dangling tubular blooms in coral-pink to deep red

or in the spray zone of a spring-fed creek

rounded crown to develop

Kalmia latifolia 26/4 Restock One caution belongs in everyMountain laurel is the aristocrat of the American heath family (Ericaceae), a broadleaf evergreen native from southern Maine to the Florida panhandle and west toward Indiana and Louisiana, most at home on the acid, rocky slopes of the Appalachians. Linnaeus named the genus Kalmia for his student Pehr Kalm, the Finnish Swedish naturalist who botanized the eastern colonies in the 1740s, and the species epithet latifolia means broad leaved. To gardeners