East Tennessee is graced with a richly diverse flora. Spring wildflowers abound, a large number of trees and shrubs populate our hardwood and evergreen forests, and various special habitats such as bogs, rock outcrops, mountaintop balds and limestone ridges are host to many rare and unusual plant species. A nearby locality, Roan Mountain, has been a focus of botanical interest for 150 years, and is host to many rare and disjunct species of plants. The spruce-fir forest of Roan Mountain represents one of the most southern sites for this typically northern evergreen forest type, and many northern plant species occur on Roan Mountain as relicts from their the ice ages distributions. A masters research project by ETSU student D. Medford, working with me, examines morphological diversity over time in two Roan Mountain endemic species. I have posted preliminary checklists for species of plants (angiosperms, gymnosperms, pteridophytes & bryophytes) on the web site for the Friends of Roan Mountain, a local conservation & naturalist group. (comments on this ETSU Biology maintained web site are welcome)