Kuntze Kalmia cuneata is a species of flowering plant in the heath family known by the common name whitewicky, sometimes spelled white-wicky or white wicky.

[6] This species is easily told from Kalmia carolina, which is evergreen and has pink flowers and oppositely arranged leaves.

[2] Kalmia cuneata grows mainly in the ecotone between the Carolina Sandhills and adjacent pocosins.

It grows alongside many other types of shrubs, such as the ericaceous species Rhododendron viscosum, Lyonia lucida, L. ligustrina var.

foliosiflora, Vaccinium corymbosum, Zenobia pulverulenta, Leucothoe racemosa, Oxydendrum arboreum, and Gaylussacia frondosa, and other shrubs such as Clethra alnifolia, Ilex glabra, I. coriacea, Aronia arbutifolia, and Fothergilla gardenii.