Native Plants

Native Plants

Land

Western North Carolina is covered with plants indigenous to the Appalachian Mountains. Here is a short list of the plants found throughout the Linville Falls area. Flowering Plants Flowering Dogwood (Cornus florida) This small tree features North Carolina’s...
Old Growth Forests

Old Growth Forests

Land

Old-Growth forests conjures up visions of the great forests that once covered most of eastern north America, and of towering trees undisturbed by logging and human settlement. They provide a vital link to our environmental past and are the preferred and sometime only habitat of a number of species.