Species: Kalmia microphylla

Alpine Bog Laurel
Species

    Pale Laurel is a low, evergreen shrub with branched, ascending to prostrate stems that are 2-5 dm long and which root at the nodes. The narrowly elliptic leaves are 2-4 cm long, are opposite, and have short petioles and entire, rolled-under margins. They are dark green and glabrous above but densely gray-hairy and glandular below. Several flowers are borne on stalks that are 2-4 cm long at the stem tips. The calyx has 5 deep lobes that are 2-3 mm long, and the deep pink, bowl-shaped, 5-lobed corolla is 12-18 mm broad. There are 10 stamens. The fruit is a nearly round capsule that is 2-3 mm high; it opens by 5 slits radiating from the center.

    Kingdom
    Plantae
    Phylum
    Anthophyta
    Class

    Dicotyledoneae

    Order

    Ericales

    Family

    Ericaceae

    Genus

    Kalmia

    Classification
    Other Global Common Names
    Alpine Laurel - alpine laurel
    Informal Taxonomy
    Plants, Vascular - Flowering Plants - Heath Family
    Formal Taxonomy
    Plantae - Anthophyta - Dicotyledoneae - Ericales - Ericaceae - Kalmia

    Pale Laurel is a low, evergreen shrub with branched, ascending to prostrate stems that are 2-5 dm long and which root at the nodes. The narrowly elliptic leaves are 2-4 cm long, are opposite, and have short petioles and entire, rolled-under margins. They are dark green and glabrous above but densely gray-hairy and glandular below. Several flowers are borne on stalks that are 2-4 cm long at the stem tips. The calyx has 5 deep lobes that are 2-3 mm long, and the deep pink, bowl-shaped, 5-lobed corolla is 12-18 mm broad. There are 10 stamens. The fruit is a nearly round capsule that is 2-3 mm high; it opens by 5 slits radiating from the center.

    Short General Description
    Evergreen shrub.
    NatureServe Global Status Rank
    G5
    Global Status Last Reviewed
    1993-06-25
    Global Status Last Changed
    1993-06-25
    Conservation Status Map
    <img src="http://www.natureserve.org/explorer/servlet/GetMapGif?CA.AB=S5&CA.BC=S4&CA.MB=S1&CA.NT=SNR&CA.ON=S2&CA.YT=S4&US.AK=SNR&US.CA=SNR&US.CO=SNR&US.ID=SNR&US.MT=S4&US.NV=SNR&US.OR=SNR&US.UT=SNR&US.WA=SNR&US.WY=S3" alt="Conservation Status Map" style="width: 475px; height: auto;" />
    Global Range
    UT (Daggett, Duchesne, Summit, Uintah counties),AB, AK and YT, OR, WA, ID, MT, WY, CO, NV, CA.
    ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.148824