Natural History Wanderings

Great Smoky Mountains Association posted a new wildflower report on 4/9/12

Low Gap (From Cosby to Low Gap) –  Stone Crop, Golden Ragwort, Sweet Cicely, Hooked Buttercup, Sweet White Violet, Solomon’s Seal, Foam Flower, Bishop Caps, Star Chickweed, Rue Anemone, Dog Hobble, Long Spurred Violet, Showy Orchis, Brook Lettuce, Toothwort, Wild Phlox, Bowman’s Root, Trillium Erect, False Solomon’s Seal, Yellow Trillium, Blue Cohosh, May Apple, Hairy Buttercup, Canadian Violet especially nice now, Wild Geranium, Doll Eyes, Meadow Parsnip, Yellow Mandarin, Jack-in-pulpit, Dwarf Ginseng, Squaw Root, Prostrate Bluets, Wood Anemone, Halberd Leaf Violet, Spring Beauty, Trout Lily, and White Fringed Phacelia at peak at Low Gap – really beautiful.

Appalachian Trail (From Low Gap to Lower Mt. Cammerer Trail) – White Fringed Phacelia, Spring Beauty should peak about half mile from Low Gap within next week, Star Chickweed, Stone Crop, Halberd Leaf Violet, Squaw Root, Sweet White Violet, Witch Hobble, Wood Anemone, Prostrate Bluets, Service Berry, Squirrel Corn, Trout Lily, Dutchmen’s Breeches, Trillium Erect, Seersucker Sedge, Painted Trillium 5 Small blooms, Wild Oats, Trailing Arbutus, Yellow Trillium, Solomon’s Seal, Crested Dwarf Iris, Silver Bell, and Meadow Parsnip.

Mount Cammerer (Beginning to End) – Spring Beauty, Witch Hobble, Serviceberry, Trout Lily, and Seersucker Sedge.

Lower Mount Cammerer (Beginning to End) – Wood Anemone, Star Chickweed, Yellow Mandarin, Blood Root 1, Yellow Trillium, Solomon’s Seal, Birdfoot Violet, Silver Bell, Large Flowered Bellwort, Blue Cohosh, Fraser Manolia, Squaw Root, Sweet White Violet, Trillium Erect, Rue Anemone, Hooked Buttercup, Toothwort, Brook Lettuce, Canadian Violet really nice, Squirrel Corn, Yellow Mandarin, Halberd Leaf Violet, Wild Oats, Golden Ragwort, Foam Flower, Dog Hobble, Lousewort 1, Bishop Caps, Bed Straw, Dogwood, Golden Ragwort, Showy Orchis past peak and very few, Hairy Butter Cup, Common Cinquefoil, Stone Crop, Nodding Trillium right at peak, Vasey Trillium 2, Cancer Root 1, Wild Geranium, Star Grass 1, Crested Dwarf Iris many past peak but good number at peak bloom, and Wild Phlox.

You can see of their Wildflower reports at:   Wildflower Updates | Great Smoky Mountains Association.