Carolina Environmental Diversity Explorations

Jocassee Gorges · By Stephanie Walters and Dirk Frankenberg

Spray Zone Community

Figure 13. Sturdier plants grow further back from the falls. (Photograph by Dirk Frankenberg. More about the photograph)

As one moves further back from the falls, the spray community becomes even more diverse as grasses and broad-leafed plants find suitable habitats among the boulders and downed trees at the bottom of the waterfalls.