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Kalmia latifolia, a.k.a. mountain-laurel, calico-bush, or spoonwood, is native to Eastern North America (New England south to the southern Indiana, Louisiana and the Florida panhandle)

Carl Linnaeus named this genus after Swedish botanist Peter Kalm (1716-1779) who explored plant life in parts of eastern North America from 1747 to 1751

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