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9 Flowers

What was in bloom beside the trail, by species and by month

Beside the Trail

In Bloom

14 photographs of 9 flowers since March 30, 2024. Each page carries every photograph with its morning, the trail and the distance into the loop. The names are mine; the scientific names come from the iNaturalist taxonomy and are cited on each page.

Pink azalea flowers with darker speckled throats crowding a shrub in the morning sun Azalea 5 sightings
Porter's sunflower in bloom, two flowers with eight broad yellow rays around yellow centers, two heads without rays beside them, narrow toothed leaves and grass behind Porter's Sunflower (the yellow daisy) 2 sightings Helianthus porteri
Round white flower heads of a snowball viburnum hanging in a row along an arching branch, some of them still tinged green, paired dark leaves between them, April 6, 2024 Chinese Snowball Viburnum 1 sighting Viburnum macrocephalum
Goldenrod in bloom, dense sprays of tiny yellow flower heads along arching stems with narrow leaves, a soft blur of green and purple behind Goldenrod 1 sighting Solidago
Blue-violet spiderwort flowers with three petals and yellow anthers among grass-like leaves Spiderwort 1 sighting Tradescantia
A yellow St. John's wort flower with five pinwheel petals around a dense brush of stamens, blue-green leaves behind St. John's Wort 1 sighting Hypericum
A cluster of blue black berries hanging on long yellow stalks from a twig with blunt oval leaves, granite and trees behind, Cherokee Trail, Stone Mountain, July 4, 2026 Wild Berries 1 sighting
A patch of woolly ragwort in bloom on the outcrop, small yellow heads in loose clusters over gray felted leaves, moss and bare rock around them Woolly Ragwort 1 sighting Packera dubia
A yucca's flower stalk of nodding cream white bells against a deep blue sky on the bare granite summit, the transmission tower behind it, Cherokee Trail, Stone Mountain, May 16, 2026 Yucca 1 sighting Yucca

Month by Month

Bloom Calendar

A filled cell is a month with at least one photograph of that flower; beside each row, the earliest sighting in each year. A walk that did not pass a flower leaves its month empty, so an empty cell is not a claim that nothing bloomed.

Flower JFMAMJJASOND Earliest each year
Azalea March April 2024: Mar 30
Woolly Ragwort March 2026: Mar 26
Chinese Snowball Viburnum April 2024: Apr 6
Spiderwort April 2024: Apr 20
Yucca May 2026: May 16
St. John's Wort June 2025: Jun 1
Wild Berries July 2026: Jul 4
Porter's Sunflower August October 2025: Aug 29; 2026: Oct 2
Goldenrod September 2026: Sep 26

On the Map

Where They Were Seen

Where 12 of the 14 flower photographs were taken, at 11 places. 8 have a measured position, the photograph's own GPS or the watch's recording at that moment, and show as a filled pin; 4 were placed by hand and show as a ring.

Every recorded walk on Cherokee Trail, Stone Mountain drawn on one map, darker where more mornings passed
  • Measured position
  • Placed by hand

Under the pins, every recorded walk on Cherokee Trail, Stone Mountain, 118 mornings drawn as one line each, darker where more of them passed, with contours every 40 ft and the lake. Sightings at the same position share a pin; point at one, or tab to it, for the name and the date. Drawn when the site is built; nothing runs in the browser.

Not on the map: 1 on a trail with no map yet and 1 withheld, a sensitive species or a working area of the park.