Despite its popularity, the Mountain Laurel wasn’t originally a shoo-in as the Pennsylvania state flower. When the issue was discussed in the 1930s, the Pennsylvania General Assembly was so in doubt about which flower should represent the state that it sent the Governor bills naming two differ...
At the turn of the 20th century, over 3,000 women urged Connecticut's state legislature to adopt the beautiful mountain laurel as the state flower.
Themountain laurel,(Kalmia latifolia,) is Pennsylvania state flower, as enacted by the General Assembly on May 5, 1933. A profusion of native wildflowers herald spring and summer in Penn's Woods. Chief among them is the evergreen Mountain laurel,(Kalmia latifolia.) Governor Gifford Pinchot dec...
As a result of this work, Boston ivy grows today in Finland. Kalm is immortalized in the name of state flower of Pennsylvania and Connecticut, Kalmia latifolia.The obverse of the Pehr Kalm and European Explorers commemorative coin features a beautifulmountain laurel. ...
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Briggs’s unfinished manuscript implies that liquid under negative pressure generates stress, which, superimposed on the stress generated from the flower’s growth habit, results in force adequate to propel the pollen as observed. With new data and biophysical understanding to supplement Briggs’s ...