I recall how exhilarated I felt, as spring was changing to summer in the mid-1950s, when I first became aware of those spectacular red buds on the mountain laurel (Kalmia latifolia) plant outside my ...
Pennsylvania's state flower is the mountain laurel.Gov. Gifford Pinchot chose it more than 90 years ago. The General Assembly passed two bills, each naming a different favorite shrub – mountain laurel ...