| Kalmia polifolia Wang. | |||
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| Family | Ericaceae — APG family: Ericaceae | ||
| Common name | bog laurel | ||
| Description | Stem much branched, more or less matted; young stems 2-edged, puberulent, up to 3 dm tall; leaves opposite, lanceolate to linear, lustrous above, pale beneath, with strongly revolute margin; inflorescence umbelliform; flowers up to 2 cm broad; calyx glabrous; corolla saucerlike, pink to crimson. | ||
| Ecology | Peaty soil. Described from eastern Canada. |
This is a digital representation of Eric Hultén’s ‘Flora of Alaska and Neighboring Territories: A Manual of the Vascular Plants’, which was published by Stanford University Press in 1968. The book was digitized by C. Webb (at UAMN) as part of the Flora of Alaska project, with funding by the US NSF (Grant 1759964 to Ickert-Bond & Webb), and with permission of Stanford University Press. Data and images © 1968 Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Jr. Univ. Usage licence: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0. NB: You may find OCR errors; please refer to the hard-copy if in doubt.