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Kalmia buxifolia

Sand Myrtle

Native/Alien:

Native

Type:

Shrub

Bloom Color(s):

white

Size:

1 - 6 ft

Bloom Time:

late March - April - May

Bloom Area:

Statewide (Mountains, Piedmont, Coast)

Notes:

Recently transfered to Kalmia from Leiophyllum buxifolium. See Weakley Flora March 2010 draft

In bloom

Formerly Leiophyllum buxifolium, Sand Myrtle has an odd, disjunct distribution. In the outer coastal plain of Carteret and Brunswick Counties where this was taken, it is restricted to wet pinelands.

image

D. Paynter, April 2010, Brunswick Co

Links:

 USDA PLANTS Database Record

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