Natural History Wanderings

 Great Smoky Mountains Association has the following report for April 8 –

First half mile of Chestnut Top trail: Spring Beauty – Trillium Erect  – Yellow Trillium – Solomon’s Seal – Rue Anemone – Purple Phacelia –  Star Chickweed – Long Spurred Violet – Common Cinquefoil – Little Brown Jugs – Stone Crop – Seersucker Sage – Fire Pink (1), Bloodroot  and Toothwort. Porters Creek trail is expected to be at peak for the next week. Cove Hardwood Trail – Spring beauty, hepatica, squirrel corn, fringed phacelia, fiddle-head ferns, yellow trillium, white erect trillium, large-flowered trillium, trout lily, blue violets.

Follow reports at:  Wildflower Updates | Great Smoky Mountains Association.