Flora of North America species comparison

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Kalmia angustifolia var. carolina
Photo is of parent taxon

Carolina wicky or bog myrtle
Leaf

blades pale green abaxially, usually deep green adaxially, abaxial surface densely puberulent with scattered, stipitate-glandular trichomes.
Flowers

calyx strongly puberulent, usually not stipitate-glandular;

corolla usually densely puberulent adaxially.

Kalmia angustifolia var. carolina
Phenology Flowering Apr–May.
Habitat Shrubby bogs, pocosins, streamhead ecotones, pine savannas
Elevation 0-1300 m (0-4300 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
GA; NC; SC; TN; VA
Source FNA vol. 8, p. 483.
Parent taxa Ericaceae > subfam. Ericoideae > Kalmia > Kalmia angustifolia
Sibling taxa
K. angustifolia var. angustifolia
Synonyms K. carolina
Name authority (Small) Fernald: Rhodora 39: 437. 1937 ,
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