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| Large-flowered Trillium |
At Pine Mountain State Resort Park near Pineville, wildflowers continue to emerge as early season sun warms the spring woodlands.
This week's colorful display includes long-spurred violet, sweet white violet, halberd-leaved yellow violet, downy wood violet, blue violet, trailing arbutus, erect trillium, large-flowered trillium, yellow trillium, rue anemone, hairy buttercup, large-flowered bellwort, pennywort, violet wood-sorrel, blue phlox, Jacob's ladder, purple phacelia, Virginia bluebells, foamflower, stonecrop, wood vetch, wood betony, Canada violet, arrow-leaved violet, bird foot violet, golden ragwort, wild ginger and little brown jug.
In addition, lush ferns are everywhere in abundance and orchid greenery can also be observed. Among them are cranefly orchid, putty-root orchid, and rattlesnake plantain. The silvery-green foliage of Pink Lady's Slipper has also slipped above the leaf litter.
Redbuds and dogwoods are now in full flower across the region making for spectacular spring sightseeing drives. The Cumberland Gap Parkway (Highway 25E), from Corbin to Middlesboro, is particularly lovely at this time.
