Native and naturalized plants
Native and naturalized plants of the Carolinas and Georgia, eastern Tennessee and northern Florida

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Weakley's Flora ( 4/7/08 ): Ericaceae
Kalmia carolina

SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS National Database: Ericaceae
Kalmia carolina

ORTHOGRAPHIC ERROR
Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (1968): Ericaceae
145-08-002
Kalmia angustifolia var. caroliniana

Common Name:
Southern Sheepkill, Carolina Wicky, Sheep-laurel, Carolina Bog Myrtle

Shrub
Perennial
Evergreen

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Common (rare in Mountains) (rare in GA)
Documented growing wild in GA NC SC

Look for it in moist to wet pinelands of Coastal Plain, pocosin margins (or seemingly in pocosins or swamps because of fire suppression), mountain bogs & fens (& less commonly in rocky areas at high elevations) in Mountains, per Weakley's Flora



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...Wet ...Moist ...Variable

Leaves:
Simple
Whorls of 3

Flower:
Spring/Summer
Reddish-pink/Rarely white
Bisexual
5 sepals
5-lobed corolla
10 stamens
Superior ovary

Fruit:
Summer/Fall
Capsule

To learn more about this plant, look it up in a good book!
A Guide to the Wildflowers of SC p307
Native Shrubs and Woody Vines of the Southeast p110
Newcomb's Wildflower Guide p292?
Wild Flowers of NC, 1st edition p135
Wild Flowers of NC, 2nd edition p180
Wildflowers of the Carolina Lowcountry p116
Wildflowers of Tennessee p098
Woody Plants of the Blue Ridge p27?




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image of Kalmia angustifolia var. caroliniana, image of Kalmia carolina
Patrick D. McMillan      pdmkcarolina_junkyard4


April
Clarendon County SC

Acknowledgments to Dixie Damrel, curator of Clemson University's Herbarium, for taxonomic review

 

image of Kalmia angustifolia var. caroliniana, image of Kalmia carolina
JK Marlow      jkm0505l_16


May
Haywood County NC
Corneille Bryan Native Garden

Acknowledgments to Dixie Damrel, curator of Clemson University's Herbarium, for taxonomic review

 

image of Kalmia angustifolia var. caroliniana, image of Kalmia carolina
JK Marlow      jkm060521_118


May
Macon County NC
Highlands Biological Station

Acknowledgments to Dixie Damrel, curator of Clemson University's Herbarium, for taxonomic review

 

image of Kalmia angustifolia var. caroliniana, image of Kalmia carolina
JK Marlow      jkm0411a_16


November
Haywood County NC
Corneille Bryan Native Garden

Acknowledgments to Dixie Damrel, curator of Clemson University's Herbarium, for taxonomic review

 

image of Kalmia angustifolia var. caroliniana, image of Kalmia carolina
JK Marlow      jkm0411a_17


November
Haywood County NC
Corneille Bryan Native Garden

Acknowledgments to Dixie Damrel, curator of Clemson University's Herbarium, for taxonomic review

 

image of Kalmia angustifolia var. caroliniana, image of Kalmia carolina
JK Marlow      jkm0411c_30


November
Haywood County NC
Corneille Bryan Native Garden

Acknowledgments to Dixie Damrel, curator of Clemson University's Herbarium, for taxonomic review

 

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