Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Kalmia polifolia Wangenh. Beob. Ges. Nat. Freunde
Berlin 2: 130. 1788.
Kalmia glauca Ait. Hort. Kew, 2: 64. 1789.
Kalmia glauca rosmarinifolia Pursh, pi. Am. Sept. 296. 1814.
An erect or somewhat spreading shrub mostly 3-7 dm. tall, with glabrous or puberulent twigs; leaf -blades oblong to linear-oblong or oblong-lanceolate, often apparently narrow on account of the strongly revolute margins, mostly 2-3 cm. long, obtuse, glabrous, bright-green above, glaucous beneath, sessile or nearly so ; clusters few-several-flowered ; pedicels slender, glabrous, 2-3 cm. long; calyx 5-6 mm. wide, the lobes ovate to broadly oblong, obtuse; corolla rose-piurple, 1-1.5 cm. wide; capsules spheroidalovoid or globose, 5-6 mm. wide, glabrous.
Type LOCALiTy: Canada.
Distribution: Labrador and Hudson Bay to Newfoundland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and
- 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
