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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 ...
I’m 60, and I”ve known since I was a kid that the mountain laurel was protected. Supposedly, you weren't allowed to pick it because it’s the state flower, but that makes no sense.
The familiar mountain laurel (Kalmia latiflora) is a case study in this regard. Almost a century ago, Herbert Waldron Faulkner provided an account in his "Mysteries of the Flowers" (Stokes, 1917).
As a result of its popularity, Mountain Laurel was named the state flower of Pennsylvania in 1933. While all parts of Mountain laurel are poisonous and can be lethal in large doses to humans and many ...
I tend to agree. I think it’s a fun coincidence that the two states I’ve spent most of my life in — Connecticut and Pennsylvania — both have mountain laurel as their state flower.
Mountain laurel (Kalmia latifolia) has been Pennsylvania’s official state flower since 1933, when Governor Gifford Pinchot signed into law one of two competing bills. The Pennsylvania General ...
No matter what your politics, you can’t fault the legislature’s choice of mountain laurel as the state flower back in 1907. It is native to Connecticut – abundant, beautiful, with large ...
Mountain laurel is a relatively slow growing Zone 5 shrub and may take years to reach full size. Some of the miniatures and compact growing cultivars (Carol, Twenty) will always be smaller than ...
WELCOME TO TODAY’S GROWING GREEN. WE’RE AT THE HOME OF HENRY HOMEIER IN CORNISH. I’M JOINED BY STEPH CIESZYNSKI OF UNH COOPERATIVE EXTENSION AND STEPH, WE’RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT ONE OF MY ...
CARBON COUNTY, Pa. — Pennsylvania's state flower is now in bloom. Jon Meyer found plenty of Mountain Laurel when he took The Pennsylvania Road through Hickory Run State Park in Carbon County. # ...