Mountain laurel has many fine features: it will grow in sun or shade, the leaves are shiny and bright, and the delicate flowers are prolific -- usually. What I noticed as I passed through forests of ...

This family of plants includes some of the most common and best-known shrubs, such as huckleberries, blueberries, azaleas, cranberries and rhododendron.Mountain laurel varies in height from 4 feet ...

One way you can tell for how many centuries a plant name has been part of the common vernacular is to realize just how often that name has been used, and the widely disparate types of plants that ...

With its fine fibrous root system, mountain laurel is easy to transplant. It is also a long-lived plant, with some plants reported to have 100 annual rings (indicating its age as 100 years ...

Mountain laurel is a shrub that in the wild often is found in large colonies. Plants in the woods are often 6 or 8 feet high and can get considerably bigger than that. Become an aficionado ...

A: I agree with you: few plants are more gorgeous in spring than the star-shaped flower buds forming on the spectacular broad-leafed evergreen Pennsylvania native, mountain-laurel (Kalmia latifolia).

While our native mountain laurel — the plain species — is deer ... I’d like to purchase my landscape plants accordingly. Microclimates are too small and variable to map.

It may be surprising to hear then that the Harvard Gazette has called Mountain Laurel “one of the fastest-moving plants on the globe.” This is due to the plant’s very unique way of dispersing pollen.