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Guide to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park

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  • "In a two-day ramble and scramble among the Smokies," said Horace Kephart, "one may see more species of indigenous trees and shrubs than in a cross-continental trip from boston to the Pacific coast." Willa Love Galyon, writing in the April, 1928, issue of the Journal of the Tennessee Academy of Science, said that In going from the base of one of our mountains to the top one traverses the same floral zones that are to be found in a trip from southern Tennessee to southern Canada." Nowhere, truly, in North America does an area of like size offer such diversity and wealth of plant forms as those to be found in the Great Smokies. Botanists of the University of Tennessee have compiled a list of 1,500 plants, shrubs and flowering trees found in the Great Smokies. Many scientific treatises on various phases of plant life in the new national park have been written by famous naturalists. One of the first botanists to visit this region was William Bartram who made his famous excursion in 1776 Sunlight on bed of giant ferns on Big Creek. 89
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