We hiked a Tablelands trail up into “Winter House, Brook Canyon”

Jennie & Roni on the trail up and one of the small streams of snow melt

The carnivorous Pitcher Plant lives in the barren Tablelands because it gets nutrients from insects it devours instead of from the soil. The Pitcher Plant is Newfoundland and Labrador’s Provincial Flower.

From Wikipedia:

The Tablelands, found between the towns of Trout River and Woody Point in south west of Gros Morne National Park, look more like a barren desert than traditional Newfoundland. This is due to the ultramafic rock – peridotite – which makes up the Tablelands. It is thought to originate in the Earth’s mantle and was forced up from the depths during a plate collision several hundred million years ago. Peridotite lacks some of the usual nutrients required to sustain most plant life and has a toxic quality, hence its barren appearance. Peridotite is also high in iron, which accounts for its brownish colour (rusted colour). Underneath this weathered zone, the rock is really a dark green colour.