Central Appalachian Xeric Chestnut Oak - Virginia Pine Woodland – CEGL008540

Bearberry (Arctostaphylos uva-ursi, foreground), mountain-laurel (Kalmia latifolia), and wavy hairgrass (Avenella flexuosa) in an open acidic woodland on charnockite (a granitic gneiss) at Millers Head, on western flank of the Northern Blue Ridge in Page County. Shenandoah National Park.