Author Archives: Gerry

About Gerry

Owner, operator, author, and photographer for USWildflowers.com

#Waterfalls and #Wildflowers Walks – Cloudland Canyon State Park

I made a July trip over to Cloudland Canyon State Park to see the waterfalls with an expectation that I’d also see many wildflowers along the way, and I wasn’t disappointed.  While recently posting a report on a visit to nearby Lula Falls, I discovered that I’d never written the planned report on the Cloudland Canyon trip.  I quickly realized that I didn’t remember many of the details of the walk – and I was relieved to discover that the July trip was in 2011, not just this past July, so the memory fade was more reasonable.  But to refresh that failing memory, I made another trip up there on Dec 5.  Here are a dozen photos from those two “waterfalls and wildflowers walks.”

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Unnamed Falls - Cloudland Canyon State Park by USWildflowers, on Flickr

Unnamed Falls along Sitton Gulch Trail near the Waterfalls Trail junction – Cloudland Canyon State Park

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Obedient Plant – Physostegia virginiana – Added to USWildflowers’ Database

Obedient Plant, a native species, has been added to the USWildflowers database (12/04/2012.) Scientific name is Physostegia virginiana. Photo below was taken along the Blue Ridge Parkway, Haywood County, NC, on Aug 1, 2011. Go to the Obedient Plant detail page for more photos and information.

Obedient Plant, False Dragonhead, Obedience - Physostegia virginiana

Obedient Plant, False Dragonhead, Obedience – Physostegia virginiana

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