Kalmia L.
Distribution
Native to:
Alabama, Alaska, Alberta, Aleutian Is., Austria, British Columbia, California, Chita, Colorado, Connecticut, Cuba, Delaware, Finland, Florida, France, Føroyar, Georgia, Germany, Great Britain, Greenland, Iceland, Idaho, Indiana, Irkutsk, Italy, Japan, Kamchatka, Kentucky, Khabarovsk, Krasnoyarsk, Kuril Is., Labrador, Louisiana, Magadan, Maine, Manitoba, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Montana, Nevada, New Brunswick, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Newfoundland, North Carolina, North European Russi, Northwest Territorie, Norway, Nova Scotia, Nunavut, Ohio, Ontario, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Primorye, Prince Edward I., Québec, Rhode I., Romania, Sakhalin, Saskatchewan, South Carolina, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tennessee, Ukraine, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Siberia, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming, Yakutskiya, Yugoslavia, Yukon
Introduced into:
Belgium
Synonyms
Heterotypic Synonyms
- Ammyrsine Pursh in Fl. Amer. Sept. 1: 301 (1813)
- Azalea L. in Sp. Pl.: 150 (1753), nom. rej.
- Chamaecistus Oeder in G.C.Oeder & al. (eds.), Fl. Dan. 4: t. 9 (1762)
- Chamaedaphne Catesby ex Kuntze in Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 388 (1891), nom. illeg.
- Chamaeledon Link in Enum. Hort. Berol. Alt. 1: 210 (1821), nom. superfl.
- Dendrium Desv. in J. Bot. Agric. 1: 36 (1813), nom. superfl.
- Fischera Sw. in Mém. Soc. Imp. Naturalistes Moscou 5: 14 (1817), nom. illeg.
- Kalmiella Small in Fl. S.E. U.S.: 886 (1903)
- Leiophyllum (Pers.) R.Hedw. in Gen. Pl.: 313 (1806)
- Loiseleuria Desv. in J. Bot. Agric. 1: 35 (1813), nom. cons.
- Tsutsusi Adans. in Fam. Pl. 2: 164 (1763), nom. superfl.
Accepted Species
Publications
POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:
- Govaerts, R., Nic Lughadha, E., Black, N., Turner, R. & Paton, A. (2021). The World Checklist of Vascular Plants, a continuously updated resource for exploring global plant diversity. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-021-00997-6. Scientific Data 8: 215.
Other Data
Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:
Sources
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Kew Backbone Distributions
- The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2023. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
- © Copyright 2022 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
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Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone
- The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2023. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
- © Copyright 2022 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0