This is the Blue Ridge Parkway Wildflower Report for the Independence Day weekend. Summer blooms are the highlight throughout the Parkway, with adjacent fields of Black-eyed Susan and Milkweed, Yarrow, Queen Anne’s Lace, and Butterfly Weed in many, many roadside meadows. The upper sections of the Parkway in Virginia, from milepost 0 to 35, look […]

This is the Blue Ridge Parkway spring wildflower report for the middle of June, 2008. Spring is a month of transition from spring blooms to a more summer look among the park wildflower population. Catawba Rhododendron is still showing in places along with Mountain Laurel, but both are waning except at higher elevations. If you’re […]

This is the Blue Ridge Parkway Wildflower report for June 2008. This is a month of transition from spring blooms to a more summer look among the park wildflower population. Catawba Rhododendron is still showing in places here in the first week of June, along with Mountain Laurel, but both are waning except at higher […]

For June the 13th, 2008 this is the Parkway wildflower report. Mountain Laurel is now in peak bloom throughout the northern section of the Parkway and Virginia, with Catawba Rhododendron still visible but quickly waning. Goats beard is a common sight in many areas. Yarrow and Golden Groundsel are common sights from the motor road […]

This is the Blue Ridge Parkway wildflower report for the first week of June 2008. Catawba Rhododendron and Mountain Laurel are in bloom throughout the northern end of the Parkway in Virginia from Rock Fish Gap down through the James River area. As you are climbing over Apple Orchard Mountain heading south of there through […]