Southern Appalachian High-Elevation Rich Cove Forest – CEGL004973

Dense colonies of flowering yellow trout-lily (Erythronium americanum ssp. americanum) and wood anemone (Anemone quinquefolia var. quinquefolia) brighten the floor of a high-elevation rich cove forest along Dave's Branch, on Elk Garden Ridge in the Balsam Mountains (Smyth County).  Mount Rogers National Recreation Area, George Washington & Jefferson National Forests.