Unidentified white flower	White Violets ~ Viola blanda	Ferns
Porters Creek
Asters	Giant Chickweed ~ Stellaria pubera Michaux	Common Cinquefoil ~ Potentilla canadensis
Rue Anemone Thalictrum (Anemonella) thalictroides		Round-leaved Yellow Violet Viola rotundifolia
Blue Violets ~ Viola sororia (papilionacea)	Large-flowered White Trillium Trillium grandiflorum	Yellow Trillium ~ Trillium luteum
Meadow Parsnip ~ Thaspium spp.	Bee on phacelia	Jill taking a photo of Phacelia
Pink & Blue Phlox ~ Phlox stolonifera		Showy Orchis buds Galearis (Orchis) spectabilis
Why do women have to wear fragrance to the woods? Two of many. I had to use my rescue inhaler ~ OUTSIDE IN THE FRESH (?) AIR!!!	Solomon's Seal ~ Polygonatum biflorum	Jill at the big tree
The trail	Unidentified grass with yellow blossoms	Blue phlox
Large-flowered White Trillium Trillium grandiflorum	Old rock wall	Trail intersection ~ Trail sign
		Traditional cantilever barn
Cantilever detail	Spring House	Smoky Mountain Hiking Club Cabin sign
The cabin	Sign in cabin	Fireplace
Two bunks in cabin	View of spring house & barn from cabin	Yellow lance-leaved violet
Yellow Trout lily ~ Erythronium americanum	Squirrel Corn ~ Dicentra canadensis	Trout Lily
Fringed Phacelia ~ Phacelia fimbriata
Phacelia & Bishop's Cap ~ Mitella diphylla	More Fringed Phacelia	Beaked Trout Lily ~ Erythronium rostratum
Rock covered with Fringed Phacelia	White Trillium Trillium erectum forma albiflorum	White Trillium, red bug
Fern Branch Falls & lots of rocks
Dwarf Ginseng ~ Panax trifolius		Blister beetle
Large-flowered Trillium	Spring Beauty ~ Claytonia virginica	Big rock beside the trail
Anne	Jill	Jill found pollinators everywhere.
Scary footbridge!!! South end of bridge	View from middle of bridge	Hardly enough room to walk!
North end of bridge	Wood Anemone ~ Anemone lancifolia	Halberd-leaved Violet ~ Viola hastata
Bee covered with pollen on Trillium	Crested Dwarf Iris ~ Iris cristata	Rocks & water
Cascade	Tiny blue butterflies (They moved too fast for a good photo!)	Many blue butterflies were flitting around this area.
More views of the creek		The trail

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For More Information

Porters 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 April 10, 2015