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available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Leucothoe
davisiae is a species of flowering plant in the heath family known by
the common name Sierra laurel. It is native to the mountains of eastern
and northern California, including the Klamath Mountains, in which its
distribution extends just into southern Oregon. It is a shrub growing in
wet mountain habitat, such as bogs. This shrub grows erect, exceeding
one meter in height. Its leathery, hairless oval leaves are 1 to 6
centimeters long and evergreen. The inflorescence is a hanging cluster
of many small urn-shaped white flowers, not unlike those of manzanitas.
The fruit is a capsule about half a centimeter long containing many tiny
winged seeds.