Mountain Laurel

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Kalmia latifolia, commonly called mountain laurel, calico-bush, or spoonwood, is a broadleaved evergreen shrub in the heather family, Ericaceae, that is native to the eastern United States

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Kalmia latifolia, commonly called mountain laurel, calico-bush, or spoonwood, is a broadleaved evergreen shrub in the heather family, Ericaceae, that is native to the eastern United States. Its range stretches from southern Maine south to northern Florida, and west to Indiana and Louisiana. Mountain laurel is the state flower of Connecticut and Pennsylvania. It is the namesake of Laurel County in Kentucky and the city of Laurel, Mississippi.

Often conflated with another variety of Laurel, which is, in turn, conflated with various Laurels, there are only a few distinctions that mark this Laurel apart from Ericaceae norms. Most particularly, this particular type of Laurel wand tends to seek those who are ready and able to work within complex political frameworks, and are often political revolutionaries or otherwise politically significant in some fashion or another. Many of those who carry wands of this wood would have a certain natural sense of their own authority, though this is not something everyone would necessarily agree on.

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