Mountain Laurel

Specimen plant or natural background screen.

Not salt tolerant of inundation by salty or brackish water.



Low/no tolerance of salty wind or direct salt spray

Cover for birds and mammals. Deer browse the foliage.

Moist sites. Acid soils. Upland hardwood forest, slope forest , banks of seep streams, bluffs.

• Showy flowers, Interesting foliage
• Pollinated by bees.  Stamens will suddenly "snap" out of pockets in the petals and hit the insect with its load of pollen.