GREAT LAUREL
			Rhododendron maximum - Rosebay
	HOME Botanical Terms Lists: Master Plant List Flowering Times List Flowers by Color/Type Endangered Species List Habitat List Use the 'back' button on your browser to return, if necessary.		These pretty plants dot the edges of streams in the mountains. DESCRIPTION: A large evergreen shrub or sometimes small tree with leathery evergreen leaves 4 - 9" long with pointed tips. Pinkish-white flowers grow on glandular and sticky stalks, and are 1 1/2 - 2" wide with 5 blunt corola lobes. FLOWERS: June to July HABITAT: Damp woods, along streams and forested wetlands.   OTHER INFORMATION: These plants alternate growing years and flowering years. Great Laurel can form large, nearly impenetrable thickets on moist slopes OTHER OBSERVATIONS: My observations about this plant can be found at: OFFSITE INFORMATION: If you're interested