• water flowing over rocks into basin

    Hot Springs

    National Park Arkansas

Grasses

trail scene with grass on sides of trail, also pink wild phlox on right with pine tree

NPS photo by Gail Sears

Grasses play an important role in erosion control. (Goat Rock Trail)

Here is a list of grasses of Hot Springs National Park and vicinity, compiled by Francis J. Scully, 1942.

Did You Know?

black and white photo of Rector's bathhouse, a small one story frame building near the edge of Hot Springs Creek

In May 1862, Arkansas Governor Henry Massie Rector moved the state government to his hotel and bathhouse located on Hot Springs Reservation, now Hot Springs National Park. That July, the government seat was moved further south to Old Washington for the remainder of the Civil War.