Kalmia angustifolia - Revision history

WikiWorks at 21:55, 8 April 2010

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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.).
-'''''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.
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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==
-* {{cite book | author=[[Neltje Blanchan|Blanchan, Neltje]] | title=[[Wild Flowers Worth Knowing]] | year=[[2005]] | publisher=[[Project Gutenberg|Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation]]}}
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-[[Category:Ericaceae]]
+==External links==
-[[Category:Flora of the United States]]
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Christi at 10:50, 30 March 2010

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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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MediaWiki default at 05:35, 1 August 2007

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{{Taxobox
| color = lightgreen
| name = Sheep-laurel
| regnum = [[Plantae]]
| divisio = [[Flowering plant|Magnoliophyta]]
| classis = [[Magnoliopsida]]
| ordo = [[Ericales]]
| familia = [[Ericaceae]]
| genus = ''[[Kalmia]]''
| species = '''''K. angustifolia'''''
| binomial = ''Kalmia angustifolia''
| binomial_authority = [[Carolus Linnaeus|L.]]
}}

'''''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.

==References==
* {{cite book | author=[[Neltje Blanchan|Blanchan, Neltje]] | title=[[Wild Flowers Worth Knowing]] | year=[[2005]] | publisher=[[Project Gutenberg|Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation]]}}

[[Category:Ericaceae]]
[[Category:Flora of the United States]]

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