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Laurels
Every rated Kalmia record is keep-away — 2 of 3 records; none is rated fire-resistant. These counts describe the cited records — 3 records carrying 13 evidence rows from 6 cited sources; they do not make one verdict for the genus.
Keep away
2 species
Awaiting evidence
1 species
About laurels
Corpus context. Kalmia is the directory's #306 largest of 550 genus groups: 3 records carrying 13 evidence rows from 6 cited sources, recorded as shrub , hardy across USDA zones 4–5. Those are corpus facts, not a whole-genus flammability claim.
More about Kalmia: Wikipedia — external references; not evidence sources.
The answer for laurels is no. Here is what to plant instead.
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