Deans Woods

Deans Woods is a facility of the University of Tennessee that is managed by the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. It has about 20 acres of land and includes both old growth deciduous forest and successional forest that is in transition from pine to deciduous dominated canopy. It is utilized as a field site by classes taught by EEB faculty.

(above) Students from the Bio 112, General Botany class, get ready to measure field plots.

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There is a rich assortment of spring wildflowers in the old growth section along a small stream and a north-facing ravine.

Bloodroot (Sanguinaria canadensis) plants announce the arrival of spring.

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The impact of introduced plants is clear in the image below.
Periwinkle and ivy planted on a neighboring property have marched down the slope on the left, smothering other ground layer plants.

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