The Blue Ridge Province : an overview
The yellow birch and boulder syndrome
Table mountain pine : arboreal emblem
Black gum : rabbit traps and bee gums
Sourwood : natural bends and sled runners
Sarvis : what's in a name?
Azaleas and rhododendrons
Highland doghobble : the black bear's refuge
Galax : odiferous and decorative
Oilnut : that most curious fruit
Hepatica : "the gem of the woods"
The spring ephemeral strategy
Plant traps : by devious means
Cherokee baskets : splints and dyes
Winter orchids : puttyroot and cranefly orchis
Fiddleheads and ferns that walk
Cherokee mushrooms : slicks, milkys, and wishys
White snakeroot : the milk sick story
Skunks : striped and spotted
Mountain boomers : "our speediest varmint"
Cherokee cookery : yellow jacket soup & more
Copperheads and timber rattlers