help identify this plant

[paint]

Can anyone tell me what kind of bush or tree this is?

[Hawks Feather]

I am not a plant expert and could be WAY off base, but it looks like the Rhododendron plants that we had out front years ago.

Jerry

[slagmaker]

If it spits poison it's a trifid!

[paint]

I am not a plant expert and could be WAY off base, but it looks like the Rhododendron plants that we had out front years ago.

Jerry

my wife said the same thing, they were everywhere up in cherokee nat forest and I aint familiar with some of those plants up there.

[Okanagan]

Looks like one of the varieties of rhododendron to me.  Pic below is of one outside my house.  We have two different varieties with different sized leaves in the yard.  I hunted blacktail deer in the rhodies all day yesterday.  Common wild plant here in the PNW,

[msmith]

Mountain Laurel

[Okanagan]

Mountain Laurel

I think you're right!

Google on mountain laurel turned up that it is closely related to rhododendron and that they look similar, but the mountain laurel is common in the eastern area where the original poster's pic comes from.

Learned something.  Thanks.