PLANTS Profile for Kalmia angustifolia (sheep laurel)

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PLANTS Profile

Kalmia angustifolia L.
sheep laurel

Symbol:

KAAN

Group:

Dicot

Family:

Ericaceae

Duration:

Perennial

Growth Habit:

Shrub

Native Status:

L48		N
CAN		N
SPM		N

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Kalmia angustifolia L.

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Distribution:
Kalmia angustifolia L.


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USA (CT, DC, DE, MA, MD, ME, MI, NH, NJ, NY, PA, RI, VA, VT, WV), CAN (LB, NB, NF, NS, ON, PE, QC), FRA (SPM)

Related Taxa:
Kalmia angustifolia L.

View 35 genera in Ericaceae, 7 species in Kalmia

Classification:
Kalmia angustifolia L.

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Kingdom	Plantae – Plants
Subkingdom	Tracheobionta – Vascular plants
Superdivision	Spermatophyta – Seed plants
Division	Magnoliophyta – Flowering plants
Class	Magnoliopsida – Dicotyledons
Subclass	Dilleniidae
Order	Ericales
Family	Ericaceae – Heath family
Genus	Kalmia L. – laurel
Species	Kalmia angustifolia L. – sheep laurel

Threatened and Endangered Information:
Kalmia angustifolia L.

This plant is listed by the U.S. federal government or a state. Common names are from state and federal lists. Click on a place name to get a complete protected plant list for that location.

New York:
sheep laurel		Exploitably Vulnerable

Wetland Indicator Status:

NOTE: On June 1, 2012, the 2012 National Wetland Plant List superseded the information below (see Federal Register, May 9, 2012, 77(90): 27210-27214[https://federalregister.gov/a/2012-11176]). For updated wetland information about this species, see the latest wetland list.

Kalmia angustifolia L.

Nat. Ind.

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Reg. 0

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FAC

Interpreting Wetland Indicator Status

More Accounts and Images:
Kalmia angustifolia L.

View photographs from CalPhotos.

View species account from USDA Forest Service Fire Effects Information System (FEIS).

View species account from ARS Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN).

View taxonomic account from Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) for ITIS Taxonomic Serial Number 503278.

View species account and photographs from Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center Native Plant Information Network (NPIN).

View species account from Native American Ethnobotany (University of Michigan - Dearborn).

View 1 propagation protocol from Native Plants Network.

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Kalmia angustifolia L.

WV: Poisonous Plants of the Southern U.S.

Time Generated: 05/20/2013 12:06 AM CDT