| Taxon | Kalmia polifolia |
| group | Eudicots |
| Family | Ericaceae |
| Family common name(s) | heath; heather; heathwort; heathworts |
| Genus common name(s) | kalmia; gold-withy; gold withy |
| Species common name(s) | pale laurel; pale-laurel; pale bog laurel; bog kalmia; bog laural; bog-laurel; swamp kalmia; swamp laurel; swamp-laurel; box laurel |
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| Common name(s) specific to synonym; taxon noted in brackets | small-leaved kalmia [subsp. microphylla]; small-leaved laurel [subsp. microphylla]; small-leaved bog laurel [subsp. microphylla]; small-leaf laurel [subsp. microphylla]; small bog laurel [subsp. microphylla]; little-leaf mountain laurel [subsp. microphylla]; little leaf mountain laurel [subsp. microphylla]; littleleaf mountain laurel [subsp. microphylla]; alpine bog laurel [subsp. microphylla]; alpine bog-laurel [subsp. microphylla]; alpine mountain laurel [subsp. microphylla]; alpine mountain-laurel [subsp. microphylla]; alpine laurel [subsp. microphylla]; alpine kalmia [subsp. microphylla]; western bog laurel [subsp. microphylla]; western bog-laurel [subsp. microphylla]; western swamp kalmia [subsp. microphylla]; western swamp laurel [subsp. microphylla]; western mountain laurel [subsp. microphylla]; western mountain-laurel [subsp. microphylla]; western small-leaved bog laurel [subsp. microphylla] |
| Common name(s) generally applied to other taxa or multiple taxa | western laurel, western-laurel are applied to multiple Ericaceae taxa; mountain laurel, mountain-laurel, withy, withe, laurel are applied to taxa in multiple families |
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| Synonymy: The Jepson Manual (1993), FNA, PLANTS, etc | subsp. microphylla (Hook.) Calder & Roy L. Taylor; subsp. polifolia; Kalmia microphylla (Hook.) A. Heller |
