Pteridium aquilinum
The understory is thick with shrubs, including black huckleberry ("Gaylussacia baccata") and early lowbush blueberry ("Vaccinium pallidum"). Staggerbrush ("Lyonia mariana"), dangleberry ("Gaylussacia frondosa"), mountain laurel ("Kalmia latifolia"), and sheep laurel ("Kalmia angustifolia") also occur. Bracken fern ("Pteridium aquilinum") is abundant.