Spring Highlights

• Spring wildflowers: broadleaf enchanter’s-nightshade, yellow fumewort, cutleaf toothwort, and others
• Pinkish-purple flowers of eastern redbud
• Don't miss: the extravagant flower-like unfurling of hickory leaves

Summer Highlights

• Full green of summer leaves
• Deep shade of fully leafed out trees
• Deerberries
• Pink blooming naked-flower tick-trefoil

Autumn Highlights

• Change in leaf colors: oaks, hickories, sugar maple, Virginia creeper
• Late bloomers: white wood-aster, white snakeroot, and other aster family plants
• Dark berries: Virginia creeper (toxic!), mapleleaf viburnum
• Acorns, and thick or thin-husked hickory nuts on the ground

Winter Highlights

• Brown and gray hues and interesting shapes and textures of twigs, bark, and buds
• Open views from the hillsides through the leafless trees