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The woodlands of north Georgia are also rich in fern species. In areas with moist soil you can find rattlesnake ferns and large beds of New York ferns. Christmas ferns, which require drainage, tend to populate the mountain slopes.

Trillium (photo: Dranrebedrali/ CC-BY-SA-3.0; commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Trillium_with_the_leaves.jpg)

Cinnamon ferns grow along streams and in swampy areas throughout Georgia, including the Piedmont region. Riverside trails in the Piedmont, such as those along the Chattahoochee River, are alive with violets, trillium, bloodroot, and Solomon’s seal.

A very different kind of Piedmont plant life can be found on the granite outcrops of Stone Mountain and Panola Mountain State Park. On the exposed slabs of rock, tiny Diamorpha plants and other species grow in solution pits (small plots of shallow sand and soil). Some of these plants are nearly invisible without close inspection, and they represent the earliest stage of plant succession, whereby one plant community replaces another until the area reaches a climax, such as becoming a mature forest.