Carolina Vetch along the road to Big Creek	Trail sign	Showy Orchis ~ Galearis (Orchis) spectabilis
Yellow Trillium ~ Trillium luteum	Dwarf Crested Iris ~ Iris cristata	Iris blossom with caterpillar
Purple Phacelia ~ Phacelia bipennatifida		Jill
Meadow Parsnip ~ Thaspium spp.	Rue Anemone Thalictrum (Anemonella) thalictroides	Something yellow with yellow trillium & purple phacelia
Purple & Fringed Phacelia, Yellow Trillium	Wild Geranium ~ Geranium maculatum	More yellow trillium
Showy Orchis about to bloom	Black snake	Wild Geranium
Carpenter bee on geranium blossom	Trail ~ Pay attention to the rocks!	Jill up ahead
Big Creek		White Trillium Trillium erectum forma albiflorum
Tourists from the Middle East	Midnight Hole
Water & Rocks		Jill farther ahead (Anne dragging behind)
Jill	Anne	Yellow trillium
Showy Orchis in full bloom	Trail amid green leaves	Squirrel Corn
Riders ~ Later on we saw them on the road where a motorcycle had spooked one the of the mules.		Fire Pink ~ Silene virginica
Sedum in bloom	Sweet Shrub ~ Bubby Bush (no larger image) Calycanthus floridus	Mountain Stonecrop ~ Sedum ternatum

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For More Information

Big Creek Trail ~ Hiking in the Smokys Website
Great Smoky Mountains National Park ~ National Park Service
Great Smoky Mountains National Park ~ National Geographic

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Photos in header: Niagara Falls; Big Sur, CA; Golden Gate Bridge, CA; Sunset on the Baltic Sea;
Virginia Creeper Trail, VA; Emerald Lake, Yukon, Canada; Glacier Bay, Alaska; Sunset on the Pacific; Triple Falls at DuPont Forest, NC.
Header Photo Credits: All Anne S. Napier except Niagara Falls by Herman Stubblefield.

Photos by Anne S. Napier
Updated May 30, 2014