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Ericaceae
Kalmia

not marked as a favorite taxon Kalmia cuneata Michaux. Common name: White Wicky. Phenology: Late May-Jun; Sep-Oct. Habitat: Pocosins and pocosin-savanna or pocosin-sandhill ecotones. Distribution: This species is a narrow endemic of the Coastal Plain of se. NC and e. SC.

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ID notes: Kalmia cuneata is most easily distinguished from other pocosin shrubs by the combination of the following characters: leaves deciduous, alternate, oblanceolate (cuneate-attenuate at base, obtuse at apex), revolute, dark green above, paler and prominently stipitate-glandular beneath, woody capsule rounded, stipitate-glandular, persistent through the winter, borne on delicate, recurved pedicels usually 2-3 cm long.

Origin/Endemic status: Endemic

Taxonomy Comments: Kalmia cuneata is not closely related to other species in the genus.

Synonymy ⓘ: = FNA8, GW2, K4, RAB, S, S13, Ebinger (1974), Luteyn et al (1996), Southall & Hardin (1974). Basionym: Kalmia cuneata Michx. 1803

Links to other floras: = Kalmia cuneata - FNA8

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Wetland Indicator Status:

  • Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain: FACW

Heliophily ⓘ: 5

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image #1 of Kalmia cuneata© Keith Bradley | Original Image ⭷
image #2 of Kalmia cuneata© Scott Ward | Original Image ⭷
image #4 of Kalmia cuneata© Alan Cressler: Kalmia cuneata, Chesterfield County, South Carolina 1 by Alan Cressler source | Original Image ⭷
image #5 of Kalmia cuneata© Bruce A. Sorrie | Original Image ⭷
image #7 of Kalmia cuneata© Scott Ward | Original Image ⭷
image #8 of Kalmia cuneata© Keith Bradley | Original Image ⭷
image #11 of Kalmia cuneata© Keith Bradley | Original Image ⭷
image #12 of Kalmia cuneata© Scott Ward | Original Image ⭷
image #13 of Kalmia cuneata© Bruce A. Sorrie | Original Image ⭷
image #15 of Kalmia cuneata© Alan Cressler: Kalmia cuneata, Chesterfield County, South Carolina 5 by Alan Cressler source | Original Image ⭷
image #21 of Kalmia cuneata© Scott Ward | Original Image ⭷

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