Seasonal Highlights
Spring Highlights
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- Pale green emerging leaves (look for fuzzy sassafras leaves, and extravagantly unfurling hickory leaves)
- Spring wildflowers (look for the three round flower clusters of wild sarsaparilla in late spring)
- Blooming shrubs—hillside blueberry, pink azalea, and mountain laurel
Summer Highlights
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- Full green summer leaves
- Ripening berries: blueberries, black huckleberries, and dark purple wild sarsaparilla berries
- Late wildflowers: striped prince’s-pine, naked-flower tick-trefoil, whorled yellow loosestrife
Autumn Highlights
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- Changing leaf colors of hickories, sassafras and American beech (yellow); oaks and red maple (variable); black gum (brilliant coppery-orange)
- Dark berries of mapleleaf viburnum
Winter Highlights
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- Acorns—look for one-inch long acorns of chestnut oak, and smaller acorns of northern red oak and black oak
- Evergreen leaves of mountain laurel
- Tan, papery leaves of American beech, hanging on until spring