Species: Kalmia microphylla
Encyclopedia of Puget Sound
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.
Classification
Dicotyledoneae
Ericales
Ericaceae
Kalmia
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Classification
Ecology and Life History
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.