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{{Infobox mountain range
| name = Great Smoky Mountains
| photo = Clifftops4-7-07.jpg
| photo_size = 300
| photo_caption = The Smoky Mountains, viewed from atop [[Mount Le Conte (Tennessee)|Mount Le Conte]].
| country = United States
| state = Tennessee 
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==Flora==
{{see also|Appalachian temperate rainforest}}
Heavy logging in the late 19th century and early 20th century devastated much of the forests of the Smokies, but the National Park Service estimates {{convert|187000|acre|km2}} of old growth forest remains,<ref name
 = ="OldGrowthEastNC">{{cite web
| |url = =http://www.primalnature.org/ogeast/nc.pdf⏎
|  ⏎
 |title = =Old Growth in the East: A Survey. North Carolina⏎
|  ⏎
 |author = =Mary Byrd Davis⏎
|  ⏎
 |date = =23 January 2008 ⏎
 |deadurl=yes 
 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120217115050/http://www.primalnature.org/ogeast/nc.pdf 
 |archivedate=17 February 2012 
 |df= 
}}</ref> comprising the largest old growth stand in the Eastern United States. Most of the forest is a mature second-growth hardwood forest.  The range's 1,600 species of flowering plants include over 100 species of native trees and 100 species of native shrubs.  The Great Smokies are also home to over 450 species of [[non-vascular plants]], and 2,000 species of fungi.<ref name=npsgsmns>{{cite web|url=http://www.nps.gov/grsm/naturescience/index.htm |title=Great Smoky Mountains - Nature &am(contracted; show full)
* {{Official website|http://www.nps.gov/grsm/ }}
* [https://science.nature.nps.gov/parks/grsm/species/ Species Mapper]
* [http://www.smokiesinformation.org Great Smoky Mountains Association]—official nonprofit partner of the park, maps, guides, photos, and videos
* [http://www.srh.noaa.gov/mrx/research/climo/pcptxtnwd.php National Weather Service Southern Appalachian Precipitation study]
* [http://www.gsmit.org Great Smoky Mountains Institute at Tremont]
* [
https://web.archive.org/web/20080531152625/http://www.nysaes.cornell.edu/ent/biocontrol/predators/pseudoscymnus_tsugae.html Cornell University study on invasive balsam woolly adelgid control]
* [http://pubs.usgs.gov/sim/2997/ Geologic Map of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park Region, Tennessee and North Carolina] [[United States Geological Survey]]
* [http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/nphtml/gsmhome.html History and maps]
* [http://www.lib.utk.edu/refs/smokies/ The Great Smoky Mountains Regional Project]—a collection of documents and early photographs regarding the Great Smokies and surrounding communities
* [http://www.cas.sc.edu/engl/dictionary/transcripts.html Southern Appalachian English: Transcripts]—sound file samples of interviews of long-time residents of the Great Smokies conducted in 1939

[[Category:Great Smoky Mountains| ]]
[[Category:East Tennessee]]
[[Category:Geography of Appalachia]]
[[Category:Mountain ranges of North Carolina]]
[[Category:Mountain ranges of Tennessee]]
[[Category:Subranges of the Appalachian Mountains]]
[[Category:Western North Carolina]]
[[Category:Landforms of Blount County, Tennessee]]
[[Category:Landforms of Sevier County, Tennessee]]
[[Category:Landforms of Cocke County, Tennessee]]
[[Category:Landforms of Swain County, North Carolina]]
[[Category:Landforms of Haywood County, North Carolina]]
[[Category:Natural history of the Great Smoky Mountains| 01]]
[[Category:Appalachian culture]]
[[Category:Old growth forests]]
[[Category:Southern Sixers]]