Spring Beauty

spring beautySpring Beauty 
(Claytonia caroliniana)

The herbacceous, perennial Spring Beauty is native to the mountains of the Eastern US and grows in the rich soil of the deciduous woods. March-April.

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  • Grandfather Mountain you're big and you're high.  It seems that your shoulders help to hold up the sky.  I will never forget you till the day that I die.   Oh I will keep those old memories alive.

    If you have never been there a beauty so wild and so rare, it could even rival a rose.  And on a clear day from the top of his head, you can see clear to Charlotte below.

    Grandfather Mountain you're big and you're high.  It seems that your shoulders help to hold up the sky.  I will never forget you till the day that I die.  Oh I will keep those old memories alive.
    Hubert Alan Gragg
    Lenoir, NC
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