sheep laurel

İngilizce - İngilizce

sheep laurel teriminin İngilizce İngilizce sözlükte anlamı: North American dwarf shrub resembling mountain laurel but having narrower leaves and small red flowers; poisonous to young stock; An eastern North American evergreen shrub (Kalmia angustifolia) having flowers with rose-pink or crimson bell-shaped corollas, and poisonous leaves. Also called lambkill. or lambkill Open upright woody shrub (Kalmia angustifolia) of the heath family. Growing 1-4 ft (0.3-1.2 m) high, it has glossy, leathery, evergreen leaves and showy pink to rose flowers. Like other Kalmia species (including mountain laurel) and other members of the heath family, it contains a poison (andromedotoxin). In northwestern North America, where these plants occur, livestock (especially sheep) that graze on nonfertile soils of abandoned pastures and meadows may ingest enough of the plant to become poisoned, potentially fatally; wicky

sheep laurel