Jones Gap State Park is slowly recovering from Hurricane Helene although there’s still a lot of debris in the river. The bridge is back! We saw some interesting things including another snake & a bat hunting along the Middle Saluda River.  And, of course, the Jones Gap Trilliums. 

Photography by Penny Longhurst & Jim Poling.  Botanical plant names seem to change almost every day, but for now we mostly use those approved by ITIS, the Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Plants that are non-native to North America are indicated by an asterisk (*) placed after the species name. Click on any picture to zoom & enter the slide show.