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ivy noun The mountain laurel shrub (Kalmia latifolia). also ivy bush, ivy tree) The mountain laurel shrub (Kalmia latifolia). [DARE labels this usage “chiefly Appalachians, southern New England”]

1883 Zeigler and Grosscup Heart of Alleghanies 196 The arborescent kalmia and rhododendron, which grow along almost every mountain stream, have a practical use. The ivy and laurel, as they are locally called, attain, in some of the fertile coves, a diameter of three inches, and the roots are even larger. 1928 Galyon Plant Naturalist 7 Mountain laurel, known to the mountaineer as “ivy,” reaches its maximum development in the Smokies. It is not unusual to find arborescent laurels one foot or more in diameter and many feet high.1939 Hall Coll (Proctor NC) we call them slicks but it’s just rough, just laurel beds and ivy, you know, uh growed