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What sets this shrub apart is a deep and slightly uncanny ethnobotanical record
strongly acid soil
compact performance
who noticed the pairing of the deep maroon-purple flowers with the subtle leaf variegation
each fall marked with a paler signal that guides visiting bees to the nectar
Kalmia latifolia x hirsuta Allen Bush What sets this shrub apartThis seemingly unlikely hybrid crosses the familiar mountain laurel (Kalmia latifolia) with the diminutive, far less known sandhill laurel (Kalmia hirsuta) of the Deep South, two species that could hardly look more different. The cross was probably first made by the late, great Alabama nurseryman Tom Dodd, Jr., and further investigated by the Connecticut Kalmia expert Dr. Richard Jaynes, whose lifetime of work did more than anyone's to bring the genus
