Hiking at Persimmon Ridge

 

It has become our custom to use the Thursday before the National Storytelling Festival to do something active, usually a hike of some sort. Today, with our storyteller friends Mike and Denise Mount, we explored Jonesborough, Tennessee's lovely Persimmon Ridge Park.

Note: the tentative botanical labels below are by this VERY amateur botany hobbyist. I mostly used the "Picture This" app. I will appreciate corrections if there are mistaken IDs.

Fan Clubmoss
Diphasiastrum digitatum

An interesting pair of intertwined tree trunks.

There were lots of relatively recent overturned trees. I asked Sheila to stand by this to give scale. Possibly the result of Hurricane Helene?

White Wood Aster 

Eurybia divaricata

Queen Ann's Lace (Carrot)
Daucus carota

Autumn Hawkbit
Scorzoneroides autumnalis

Mike approaches another overturned tree...

...the trees roots had found purchase through the soft layers of rock and clay in the soil. Some of the roots had grown very flat as they formed between the layers of rock.

A shelf mushroom

Pokeweed
Phytolacca americana

Oxeye Daisy
Leucanthemum vulgare

Frost grape
Vitis vulpina

Chicory
Cichorium intybus

Tall Goldenrod
Solidago altissima

Switchgrass
Panicum virgatum