Leaves: alternate, simple, evergreen, elliptical, leathery, and have entire margins;¾ to 4 inches long, and 1 to 2 inches wide. Twigs: long, narrow, and glabrous ...

Mountain laurel is a lovely evergreen shrub or small tree that produces lovely pink and white flowers in June. During a recent canoe trip on Squam Lake in Holderness, I was surprised and delighted to ...

If you are looking for a spring-flowering shrub beyond the typical azaleas, consider native mountain laurel. “Mountain laurel is a beautiful native flowering shrub well used as an ornamental or shrub ...

Although mountain laurel is Pennsylvania’s state flower, I rarely see it growing in our area. In fact, locally I know of just one small shrub growing out of a rock formation above French Creek near ...

We’re going to the highest point in the park,” Rhiannon Summers told the hikers who gathered in the Shale Pit Parking Lot ...

Hiker Rosanna Castillo, who hails from New York City and Delaware, shoots a photo of mountain laurel in bloom during a Saturday morning hike at Ricketts Glen State Park. Environmental education ...

If any wildflower ushers in the calendar change from spring to summer, it is the beautiful mountain laurel. It’s blooming in great profusion now in Georgia‘s mountains, Piedmont and even a few Coastal ...

The mountain laurel are close to blooming throughout the county. Mountain laurel (Kalmia latifolia) is an evergreen shrub that naturally occurs on dry upland sites where the soils have a low, acidic ...

LEIGHTON — State flower commands attention Pennsylvania’s official flower is in bloom across the commonwealth, displaying its whites, pinks and reds against its evergreen leaves. While different ...