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Kalmia latifolia, the mountain laurel, [3] calico-bush, [3] or spoonwood, [3] is a flowering plant and one of the 10 species in the genus of Kalmia belonging to the heath(er) family Ericaceae. It is native to the eastern United States. Its range stretches from southern Maine to northern Florida, and west to Indiana and Louisiana.
Cryptocarya nova-anglica, commonly known as mountain laurel, [2] is a species of flowering plant in the family Lauraceae and is endemic to New South Wales. It is a tree with lance-shaped leaves, creamy green flowers, and elliptic to spherical to pear-shaped black drupes .
Mountain laurel blooms showing the conjoined petals The leaves are 2–12 cm long and simple lanceolate. The flowers are white, pink or purple, in corymbs of 10–50, reminiscent of Rhododendron flowers but flatter, with a star-like calyx of five conjoined petals ; each flower is 1–3 cm diameter.
Epigaea repens, the mayflower, trailing arbutus, or ground laurel, [1] is a low, spreading shrub in the family Ericaceae. It is found from Newfoundland to Florida , west to Kentucky and the Northwest Territories .
Flowers (in full bloom, June or early July). A tea (popular in France as tilleul) can be made from the dried flowers. Leaves, without the stalks, edible raw as a salad vegetable [33] Wild lowbush blueberry Vaccinium angustifolium: Eastern and central Canada, northeastern United States Berries, edible raw, commonly used in jams and jellies [34]
In Oregon, this tree is known as Oregon myrtle, while in California it is called California bay laurel, which may be shortened to California bay [10] or California laurel. It has also been called pepperwood , spicebush , cinnamon bush , peppernut tree , headache tree , [ 5 ] mountain laurel , [ 11 ] and balm of heaven .
The native flora of the United States has provided the world with a large number of horticultural and agricultural plants, mostly ornamentals, such as flowering dogwood, redbud, mountain laurel, bald cypress, southern magnolia, and black locust, all now cultivated in temperate regions worldwide, but also various food plants such as blueberries ...
Kalmia polifolia, previously known as Kalmia glauca [1] and commonly called bog laurel, swamp laurel, [2] or pale laurel, is a perennial [3] evergreen shrub of cold acidic bogs, in the family Ericaceae. It is native to north-eastern North America, from Newfoundland to Hudson Bay southwards.