 This mistake played a part in a water rights dispute between Georgia and Tennessee; Georgia was unable to withdraw water from the Tennessee River despite the river passing through the 35th parallel.The summit of Hightower Bald contains a dwarfed red oak forest, with beaked hazel and hawthorn trees in the understory.Hightower Bald's cliffs is home to "Hypericum" (Blue Ridge St. John's wort), "selaginella rupestris" (rock spikemoss) and " viburnum alnifolium" (wild hydrangea).