Spring Highlights

• New leaves

Summer Highlights

• Patches of waist-high wildflowers goldenrod, sunflowers, hoary mountainmint
• Native grasses and sedges
• Blue-green stems of little bluestem
• Butterflies and other pollinators

Autumn Highlights

• Goldenrod and sunflowers continue to bloom
• White seed tufts on drying mahogany-red stems of little bluestem
• Bright yellow leaves of hickory trees
• Purplish-red leaves of white ash trees

Winter Highlights

• Austere beauty of stunted, leafless trees, framed by the rocky slope
• Evergreen Virginia pine trees stand out
• Reddish tan stems of dormant little bluestem
• Great views of the rivers and lower town from Maryland Heights (in any season)