Summer blooms are often not as profuse as spring ones. Walk slowly, look closely for a spot of color, and you may be rewarded with seeing a single lovely flower. You may see yellow Oxalis (it also occurs in pink), a tiny flower about the size of your pinkie fingernail. When you see its leaves, you may think you are seeing clover leaves; but the blooms of oxalis looking nothing like clover.
Maypop, sometimes called Passion Flower, "may pop" up along the Creek Road; or you can see a few blooms near the Squincy Bird Cabin. It is the Tennessee state flower. Cherokee Indians called it "ocoee;" the Ocoee River and Ocoee area are named for it.
Another beautiful but hard-to-spot bloom is the Dayflower. Bees collect its pollen for themselves and unintentionally carry pollen on their feet to pollinate other flowers. The generic name is commelina. Its name has a humorous history: The man naming it knew three men, all relatives, who were named Commelyn. Two were hard workers; the third hadn't accomplished much. So the two beautiful blue petals represent the two strong men; the lower white one is for the other man.
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