Beautiful, grassy Andrews Bald in the Great Smoky Mountain National Park with Turk's cap lily

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Title:
Beautiful, grassy Andrews Bald in the Great Smoky Mountain National Park with Turk's cap lily
Description:
Beautiful, grassy Andrews Bald in the Great Smoky Mountain National Park with Turk's cap lily and Rhododendron(?). A "bald" is an area of land lacking a natural or usual covering. Note luxuriance of sedge cover, shrub relict and Lilium superbum at right.
Topics:
Botany
Subjects:
Mountains
Shrubs
Turk's cap lily (Lilium superbum)
Original Format:
Hand colored lantern slide
Extent:
3.25 x 4 in.
Item identifier:
0021476
Photographer:
Wells, B. W. (Bertram Whittier), 1884-1978 more info on Wells, B. W. (Bertram Whittier), 1884-1978 
Created Date:
circa to
Location:
Swain County (N.C.)
Great Smoky Mountains National Park (N.C. and Tenn.)
Digital Project:
B. W. Wells