Flowers
Porter's Sunflower
Also known as the yellow daisy
Flowers
Porter's Sunflower
Helianthus porteri, per iNaturalist taxonomy (looked up September 21, 2026). The identification is mine; the taxonomy only supplied the name.
What the park calls it, and what its festival is named for. It grows in the thin soil of granite outcrops in the Georgia Piedmont and in very few other places, and it opens across the summit in the last week of August.
2 sightings, on Cherokee Trail, Stone Mountain, first on August 29, 2025, latest on October 2, 2026.
October 2, 2026, Cherokee Trail, Stone Mountain
50 min after sunrise, 3.4 mi into the loop
- Camera
- Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra
- Focal
- 69 mm eq.
- Aperture
- f/2.4
- Shutter
- 1/120
- ISO
- 100
- Taken
- 8:21 AM
Porter's Sunflower, October 2, 2026, Cherokee Trail, Stone Mountain
August 29, 2025, Cherokee Trail, Stone Mountain
76 min after sunrise, 4.1 mi into the loop
- Camera
- Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra
- Focal
- 69 mm eq.
- Aperture
- f/2.4
- Shutter
- 1/4319
- ISO
- 50
- Taken
- 8:24 AM
Porter's Sunflower, August 29, 2025, Cherokee Trail, Stone Mountain