Park Wildflowers - Great Smoky Mountains

Smoky Mountains Scenics - Land of the Blue Mist Shaconage

Park Wildflowers

Turk's Cap

© 1998 Chuck Summers

Turk's Cap

This tall plant has a flower five inches wide on top op three to eight foot foilage. Look in the moist woodlands and on balds and trilside thickets. Newfound Gap Road and Kanati Fork Trail are two good locations for these flowers. They have a long bloom season stretching from July through September.

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