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Gray’s lily.  Courtesy Appalachian Voice/Ben Brewer

Rare plants flourish on Tater Hill

This story was originally published by Appalachian Voice.

BOONE — For Gray’s lily, 2021 was both the best of times and the worst of times.

The vulnerable lily, which grows only in North Carolina, Virginia and Tennessee, is a species of particular interest at the Tater Hill Plant Preserve in Watauga County, North Carolina. Here nearly 1,600 acres of land, including a rare mountain bog, are devoted to the study and protection of rare and endangered plants.