I recall how exhilarated I felt, as spring was changing to summer in the mid-1950s, when I first became aware of those spectacular red buds on the mountain laurel (Kalmia latifolia) plant outside my ...

Bright splotches of white and pink are beginning to appear throughout the mountains of Pennsylvania, as the state flower – mountain laurel – begins to bloom. Under closer inspection that profusion of ...

(WHTM) – The Mountain laurel (Kalmia latifolia) has been the Pennsylvania state flower since 1993. Mountain laurel is native to the eastern United States and is an evergreen shrub. It is also the ...

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