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|accepted_name=Kalmia latifolia
|accepted_authority=Linnaeus
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sp. Pl.
|place=1: 391. 1753 ,
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|common_names=Mountain laurel
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Chamaedaphne latifolia
|authority=(Linnaeus) Kuntze
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|name=Kalmia latifolia var. laevipes
|authority=Fernald
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|hierarchy=Ericaceae;Ericaceae subfam. Ericoideae;Kalmia;Kalmia latifolia
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Ericaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Ericaceae subfam. Ericoideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Kalmia]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Kalmia latifolia]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 8
|mention_page=page 480, 481
|treatment_page=page 482
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Shrubs </b>or, rarely, trees, erect, (1–)2–8(–12) m. <b>Twigs</b> terete, viscid, stipitate-glandular, glabrescent. <b>Leaves</b> alternate (seemingly whorled on slow-growing twigs); petiole 10–30 mm, glabrous or puberulent, sometimes stipitate-glandular; blade elliptic to elliptic-lanceolate, 4–12 × 1.5–5 cm, margins plane, apex acute, surfaces stipitate-glandular, glabrescent abaxially, glabrous, midrib puberulent adaxially. <b>Inflorescences</b> terminal, panicles, (12–)20–40-flowered. <b>Pedicels</b> 20–40 mm. <b>Flowers</b>: sepals green to reddish, usually oblong, 3–3.5 mm, apex acute, surfaces glabrous or stipitate-glandular; petals connate nearly their entire lengths, usually pink (ranging from deep red to white) with purple spots around each anther pocket, 20–25 × 15–30 mm, abaxial surface usually lightly stipitate-glandular, adaxial puberulent; filaments 4–5 mm; style 10–18 mm. <b>Capsules</b> 5-locular, 3–5 × 4–7 mm, stipitate-glandular. <b>Seeds</b> winged, obovoid and curved, 0.5–1 mm. <b>2n</b> = 24.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Apr–Jun.
|habitat=Rocky or sandy hardwood forests on mountain slopes, stream bluffs, ravines, or in pure, dense thickets
|elevation=0-1900 m
|distribution=Ala.;Conn.;Del.;Fla.;Ga.;Ind.;Ky.;La.;Maine;Md.;Mass.;Miss.;N.H.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;Ohio;Pa.;R.I.;S.C.;Tenn.;Vt.;Va.;W.Va.;introduced in Europe (England).
|discussion=<p><i>Kalmia latifolia</i> is a showy and beautiful American indigenous plant. E. S. Rand (1871) wrote that “no words can describe the beauty of this plant on the mountains of the Middle States, where it covers acres, and sheets whole hillsides with pink and white.”</p>
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|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=kress1988a
|text=Kress, A. 1988. Beobachtungen an Blüten von Kalmia latifolia L. (Ericaceae). Phytologia 65: 249–284.
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Kalmia latifolia
|author=
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Chamaedaphne latifolia;Kalmia latifolia var. laevipes
|basionyms=
|family=Ericaceae
|phenology=Flowering Apr–Jun.
|habitat=Rocky or sandy hardwood forests on mountain slopes, stream bluffs, ravines, or in pure, dense thickets
|elevation=0-1900 m
|distribution=Ala.;Conn.;Del.;Fla.;Ga.;Ind.;Ky.;La.;Maine;Md.;Mass.;Miss.;N.H.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;Ohio;Pa.;R.I.;S.C.;Tenn.;Vt.;Va.;W.Va.;introduced in Europe (England).
|reference=kress1988a
|publication title=Sp. Pl.
|publication year=
|special status=
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|subfamily=Ericaceae subfam. Ericoideae
|genus=Kalmia
|species=Kalmia latifolia
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