What is a Garland Flower? What is a Texas Ebony? What is a Portugal Laurel? What is a Carolina Hemlock? What are Laurel Shrubs? What are Ornamental Trees? Discussion Comments Deanna Baranyi Deanna Baranyi, a freelance writer and editor with a passion for the written word, brings a diverse...
Each spring and summer, the woods of Pennsylvania bask in the glow of countless pink Mountain Laurel blossoms. The glorious evergreen plant is the Pennsylvania state flower for good reason: it’s everywhere! By mid-June, sunny mountainsides from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh are covered with Mountain...
Almost all of the parts of the mountain laurel are poisonous to wildlife and humans. At the turn of the 20th century, over 3,000 women urged Connecticut’s state legislature to adopt the beautiful Mountain Laurel as the Connecticut state flower. However, not everyone embraced the idea at firs...
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...
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 ...