When Peak Northwest podcast hosts Jamie Hale and Chiara Profenna discussed spring hiking destinations, Dog Mountain quickly ...

Rows of colors festooned a hillside on a cold, misty spring day in Gatlinburg. Large, bare trees towered over blooming shrubs and flowers as Ian Sabo, a botanist at Great Smoky Mountains National ...

My two favorites are Trout Lily and Spring Beauty. Trout Lily. The Trout Lily (Erythronium americanum) has a small, yellow, bell-shaped flower which seems to nod over its surroundings.