This pretty relative of mountain laurel is now starting to bloom. It is only found in the crease of one hillside at Crow's Nest Preserve, and I think this is the only time I have caught it in bloom.
A small shrub, sheep laurel (Kalmia angustifolia) grows in some of the same habitat as mountain laurel, deerberry, blueberry, huckleberry, and pinxterbloom azalea here at the preserve. Sheep laurel also goes by the more evocative name, sheepkill.
