Carolina hemlock and various pines grow on the higher slopes.

This means shrubs and other plants can be grown more easily under Carolina hemlock.

Carolina hemlock is used more often as an ornamental tree than for timber production, due to its overall rarity.

To the north was Flat Top mountain, once the northernmost place where Carolina hemlocks grew.

An ecological study of a Carolina hemlock (Tsuga caroliniana) community in southwestern Virginia.

In forests the hemlocks have been killed by the thousands, both the eastern species (Tsuga canadensis) and the Carolina hemlocks (Tsuga caroliniana).

In landscaping, it is similar in appearance to eastern hemlock, but the Carolina hemlock has a deep taproot, compared with the shallow, aggressive roots of eastern hemlock.

CAROLINA HEMLOCK, (Tsuga caroliniana).

In eastern North America, it is a destructive pest that gravely threatens the eastern hemlock (Tsuga canadensis) and the Carolina hemlock (Tsuga caroliniana).

The hemlock woolly adelgid Adelges tsugae, an adelgid introduced to the United States from Asia in 1924, threatens Carolina hemlock, which is as susceptible as the related eastern hemlock.

I knew that I preferred to stay within the same genus, but Tsuga caroliniana, the Carolina hemlock, is also suffering from adelgid attack, and besides it lacks the dropping grace and fullness of its Northern cousin.

A similar but smaller project by the Department of Agriculture and North Carolina State University is under way for the Eastern and North Carolina hemlocks, which are threatened by the Hemlock woolly adelgid.

And Susan Bentz, a horticulturist with the National Arboretum in Washington, has been hard at work for 10 years trying to create Chino-American hybrids, with some success crossing the Carolina hemlock and its Chinese relative.

Tsuga caroliniana, the Carolina hemlock, is a species of Tsuga, native to the Appalachian Mountains in southwest Virginia, western North Carolina, extreme northeast Georgia, northwest South Carolina, and eastern Tennessee.

The Green River area is listed under the North Carolina Natural Heritage identified natural area, significant for a diversity of habitat types including granite dome outcrops, steep cliffs, rich cove forests, Carolina hemlock bluffs, and pine-oak forests.

At lower elevations of the Black Mountains, eastern and Carolina hemlock trees grow on moist slopes near streams (a National Forest recreation area on the Toe River at the base of Mount Mitchell is called "Carolina Hemlocks" for this reason).

Its range completely overlaps that of the closely related Tsuga caroliniana.

An ecological study of a Carolina hemlock (Tsuga caroliniana) community in southwestern Virginia.

In eastern North America, it is a destructive pest that gravely threatens the eastern hemlock (Tsuga canadensis) and the Carolina hemlock (Tsuga caroliniana).