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 Some Notable Plants
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Eastern Deciduous Forest

Temperate Deciduous Forest

 Beech-Maple-Tuliptree "mixed-mesophytic forest" or "cove-hardwood forest" (mesic areas; highly diverse), Oak-Hickory (xeric areas)
Fall time view looking southeast from the fire tower in Frozen Head State Park. FrozenHead-Schmidt-s.jpg (59679 bytes)
Tuliptree is a pioneer tree which persists in old-growth stands in the Great Smoky Mountains. The Smokies have the largest remaining stands of virgin forests in the eastern U.S. Tuliptree-Schmidt-s.jpg (68204 bytes)
View of Mount Le Conte from Campbell Overlook shows many communities and spans more than one biome. LabeledMountLeconte.jpg (49363 bytes)