Spring flowers in bloom at Great Smoky Mountains National Park

Spring flowers in bloom at Great Smoky Mountains National Park

Dwarf crested irises bloom at Great Smoky Mountains National Park.(Jacqui Sieber / WUOT)Rows of colors festooned a hillside on a cold, misty spring day in Gatlinburg. Large, bare trees towered over blooming shrubs and flowers as Ian Sabo, a botanist at Great Smoky Mountains National Park, bent down to examine a white flower with a berry pink center.By its smell and appearance, he determined it to be a sweet white trillium, also known as trillium…