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{{taxobox
|name = ''Kalmia''
|image = Kalmia latifolia.jpg
|image_caption = ''[[Kalmia latifolia]]''
|regnum = [[Plantae]]
|divisio = [[Angiospermae]]
|classis = [[Eudicotyledones]]
|superordo = [[Asteridae]]
|ordo = [[Ericales]]
|familia = [[Ericaceae]]
|genus = '''''Kalmia'''''
|genus_authority = [[Carolus Linnaeus|L.]]
|subdivision_ranks = [[Species]]
|subdivision = Vide commentarium.
|}}

'''''Kalmia''''' ([[Anglice]]: ''sheep-laurel, lambkill, calfkill, killkid, sheep-poison,''<ref name="NHEST">[https://web.archive.org/web/20110101084945/http://nhest.org/penquis/pentreelist.html Natural History Education, Science, Technology] regarding alternate names, accessed March 30, 2007.</ref> ''spoonwood''<ref name="">[http://books.google.com/books?id=aD12iEgGUlgC&pg=PA61&lpg=PA61&dq=spoonwood+spoons&source=web&ots=hDhJ3qQ5FH&sig=0cI_-ay9QZumYMYTv14IzS2I7-4 Plants of Colonial Days] by Raymond Leech Taylor, p. 61. (1996) ISBN 0-486-29404-8. Nexus die 30 Martii 2007 confirmatus.</ref>) est [[genus (taxinomia)|genus]] circa octo [[species (taxinomia)|specierum]] [[frutex|fruticum]] et parvarum [[arbor]]um [[sempervirens|sempervirentium]] 0.2–5&thinsp;m altarum, [[familia (taxinomia)|familiae]] [[Ericaceae|Ericacearum]], in [[America Septentrionalis|America Septentrionali]] (praecipue in orientali [[continens|continentis]] dimidio) et [[Cuba]] [[Endemismus|endemicarum]].<!-- They grow in [[acid]]ic soils, with different species in wet acid bog habitats (''K. angustifolia, K. polifolia'') and dry, sandy soils (''K. ericoides, K. latifolia'').-->

[[Planta]] primum descripta est in [[America]] anno [[1624]], sed ex [[Pehr Kalm]], [[botanica|botanista]] [[Finnia|Finnico]], qui exemplaria ad [[Linnaeus|Linnaeum]] [[saeculum 18|saeculo duodevicensimo]] misit, a Linnaeo ipso appellatur.<!--Earlier [[Mark Catesby]] had seen it during his travels in [[Carolina]], and after his return to England in 1726, imported seeds. He described it, a costly rarity, in his ''Natural History of Carolina'', as ''Chamaedaphne foliis tini'', that is to say "with leaves like the [[Viburnum tinus|Laurustinus]]"; the botanist and plant-collector [[John Collinson]], who had begged some of the shrub from his correspondent John Custis in Virginia, wrote, when his plants flowered, that "I Really Think it exceeds the Laurus Tinus."<ref>Alice M. Coats, ''Garden Shrubs and Their Histories'' (1964) 1992, ''s.v.'' "Kalmia".</ref> -->

[[Folium|Folia]] sunt 2–12&thinsp;cm longa, simplicia, lanceolata, spiratim in [[caulis|caulibus]] disposita. [[Flos|Flores]] sunt [[albus|albi]], [[roseus|rosei]], vel [[purpureus|purpurei]], in 10–50 [[corymbus|corybmis]] florum ''[[Rhododendron|Rhododendri]]'' similibus, sed planioribus, [[calyx|calyce]] ad instar [[stella]]e quinque [[petalum|petalorum]] coniunctorum; quisque flos est 1–3&thinsp;cm latus. [[Fructus]] est [[capsula]] quinquelobata, quae se ad liberanda numerosa parva [[semen|semina]] diffindit.

Folia comesta sunt [[venenum|venenosa]], [[ovis|ovibus]] ad venenum pronissimis (ergo nomen Anglicum ''lambkill,'' pro nonnullis speciebus adhibitum). Folia ramunculique [[homo|hominibus]] quoque sunt toxicarii.<!--

Kalmiae are popular [[garden]] shrubs, grown for their decorative flowers. They should not be planted where they are accessible to livestock due to the toxicity.-->

[[Larva]]e nonnullorum [[lepidoptera|lepidopterorum]] nonnullis ''Kalmiae'' speciebus vesci solent, et ''[[Coleophora|Coleophora kalmiella]]'' solum ''Kalmia'' vescitur.
[[Fasciculus:Kalmia2.JPG|thumb|Flores.]]

== Species ==
[[Fasciculus:Kalmia microphylla 0602.JPG|thumb|''[[Kalmia microphylla]]'']] 
* ''[[Kalmia angustifolia]]'' L.
* ''[[Kalmia carolina]]''
* ''[[Kalmia cuneata]]'' Michx.
* ''[[Kalmia ericoides]]'' Wright
* ''[[Kalmia hirsuta]]'' Walt.
* ''[[Kalmia latifolia]]'' L.
* ''[[Kalmia microphylla]]'' (Hook.) A. Heller; aliquando habita subspecies vel varietas ''[[Kalmia polifolia|Kalmiae polifoliae]]''<ref name="USDA">http://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=KAMI</ref>
* ''[[Kalmia occidentalis]]'' Small; = ''[[Kalmia microphylla]]''<ref name="USDA"/>
* ''[[Kalmia polifolia]]'' Wangenh.

''[[Kalmiopsis leachiana]]'' est rarus [[frutex]] cognatus, in [[Siskiyou Montes|Siskiyou Montibus]] [[Oregonia]]e meridio-occidentalis endemicus.

== Notae ==
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== Nexus externi ==
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{{Fontes biologici}}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20080226004011/http://www.pieris.eu/ De ''Kalmia latifolia'']
* [http://www.kalmia-society.org Europaea Kalmiae Societas]
* [http://www.kalmia.info Hybridizator Germanus]

[[Categoria:Genera plantarum]]{{Titulus italicus}} 
[[Categoria:Ericaceae]]
[[Categoria:Flora Civitatum Foederatarum orientalium]]
[[Categoria:Genera plantarum ex hominibus appellata]]
[[Categoria:Taxa Linnaei]]