mountain-laurel

Ecoregion 30c supports a number of endemic plants and has a higher representation of deciduous woodland than elsewhere on the Edwards Plateau (30), with escarpment black cherry, Texas mountain-laurel, madrone, Lacey oak, bigtooth maple, and Carolina basswood.

Ecoregions of Texas (EPA) 2009

Kalm's observations -- including his mountain-laurel boosterism -- made their way into the official botanical world with the help of Carolus Linnaeus (1707-78), the polymath whose system for naming, ranking and classifying the natural world is still in wide use today.

A Naturalist in the Colonies 2007

Did it come from knowledge of her beauty, matchless as that of the mountain-laurel? ...

Zane Grey, Romancing the West May, Stephen J. 1997

There were the vine which never bore fruit, the dry cones of the pine, steeped in the dew that drops from the leaves of the mountain-laurel, the claws of the tiger, the teeth of the alligator, the thighbone of the tortoise, and the ribs of the snail, reduced to a powder, and mixed up with water dropped from the shell of the butternut, through the ochre of war.

Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 2 (of 3) James Athearn Jones

Now I, by fasting seven days, and quenching my thirst with the dew of the mountain-laurel alone, shall, according to the word of my father, be enabled to see this earth tenanted by beautiful creatures; the seeds, which now lie dormant in the earth, will spring up to furnish food for innumerable creatures, and those innumerable creatures will enjoy the bounties spread out in such profusion before them!

Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 2 (of 3) James Athearn Jones

Seven days he ate no food, and quenched his thirst with only the dew which lay upon the mountain-laurel.

Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 2 (of 3) James Athearn Jones

He recollected that this venerable and wise bird, who did not die till his claws were rotted off, and his feathers all dispersed to the winds, told him that if one of his descendants were to eat nothing for seven days, and to quench his thirst with the dew which should lie upon the mountain-laurel, he would enjoy the power to accomplish that which ought to be done.

Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 2 (of 3) James Athearn Jones

Did it come from knowledge of her beauty, matchless as that of the mountain-laurel?

The Last Trail Zane Grey 1905

She proposed to him that she should show him the wonderful display of mountain-laurel that grew higher up among the pine-woods.

A Fountain Sealed Anne Douglas Sedgwick 1904

Peering cautiously between the slender boles of crooked mountain-laurel bushes, he soon found a vantage point from which he could see on beyond the densely woven foliage, and, to his astonishment, found, before he had thought, possible that he had progressed so far, that he had already reached the place he sought.

In Old Kentucky Edward Marshall 1901