Ground Laurel

The two which, throughout the Northern Atlantic States, divide this interest are the _Epigaea repens_ (May-flower, ground-laurel, or trailing-arbutus) and the _Hepatica triloba_ (liverleaf, liverwort, or blue anemone). ❋ Various (N/A)

The first trip to the woods, after the snow has gone, is generally in quest of these berries; a week or two later, they go upon the hills for our earliest flowers – ground-laurel and squirrel-cups; a little later, they gather violets, and then again, the azalea, or "wild honeysuckle," as they call it, to which they are very partial. ❋ Unknown (1887)

Found pipsissiwa and a ground-laurel, with their flowers in bud; the first plant blooms regularly about Christmas in some parts of the country, but I have never heard of its flowering here in winter. ❋ Unknown (1887)

The pipsissiwa and ground-laurel are in bud; the last has its buds full-sized, and the calyx opening to show the tips of the flowers, but these are only faintly touched with pink on the edge; unfolding them, we found the petals still green within. ❋ Unknown (1887)

The ground-laurel is in flower-bud, and the buds are quite full. ❋ Unknown (1887)

Round the boles of the pine-wood the ground-laurel creeps, ❋ John Greenleaf Whittier (1849)

"Everybody makes such a fuss about ground-laurel!" said I. "I don't see why, I'm sure. ❋ Various (N/A)

Hide in their bells, a soft aerial blue, "-- ground-laurel being a local name for trailing arbutus, called also mayflower, and squirrel-cups for hepatica, or liver-leaf. ❋ John Burroughs (1879)