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§1 Plant
Kalmia carolina Small
vernacular Carolina laurel — species · Ericaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Shrub
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Ericaceae Juss.
- Genus
- Kalmia
§2a
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 47 counties across 5 states/territories§3Cultivation
No cultivation specs.
USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 47 counties across 5 states/territories.
Georgia view state ↗ 2 N ▾
North Carolina view state ↗ 40 N ▾
- Alleghany 37005
- Avery 37011
- Beaufort 37013
- Bladen 37017
- Buncombe 37021
- Carteret 37031
- Chowan 37041
- Columbus 37047
- Craven 37049
- Cumberland 37051
- Dare 37055
- Duplin 37061
- Gates 37073
- Greene 37079
- Harnett 37085
- Henderson 37089
- Hoke 37093
- Hyde 37095
- Johnston 37101
- Jones 37103
- Lenoir 37107
- Macon 37113
- Martin 37117
- Mitchell 37121
- Montgomery 37123
- New Hanover 37129
- Onslow 37133
- Pasquotank 37139
- Pender 37141
- Perquimans 37143
- Pitt 37147
- Richmond 37153
- Robeson 37155
- Sampson 37163
- Scotland 37165
- Transylvania 37175
- Tyrrell 37177
- Washington 37187
- Watauga 37189
- Wayne 37191
South Carolina view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Tennessee view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Virginia view state ↗ 1 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/KACA2 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/8311648 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
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