The woodland makeup, which is dominated by ash, includes yew and a shrub layer of hazel and hawthorn.
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There are often many grasses ( and bracken ) in these forests and a sparse hard-leafed shrub layer.
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Wild service trees and elders are found in the shrub layer, and a pond has a raised sphagnum bog.
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Montane hardwood habitat typically consists of an evergreen hardwood tree layer, a patchy shrub layer, and sparse herbaceous cover.
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In an ecosystem, the ground cover forms the layer of vegetation below the shrub layer known as the herbaceous layer.
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Chestnut oak dominates the forest while blueberries, huckleberries and mountain laurel make up the shrub layer of the Mansion Day Use area.
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The dominant vegetative structure is xerophytic deciduous forests with multiple layers including a canopy ( trees ), sub-canopy, shrub layer and herbaceous layer.
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Because of the drying influence of the winds, stunted branches are produced on the west side of the tree above the protective shrub layer.
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The study concluded that damage to the shrub layer, caused by overgrazing by deer, for example, may make woodland less suitable for marsh tits.
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Pitch pine is the characteristic tree of the wetlands, along with aspen, gray birch, and red maple, along with an ericaceous shrub layer ."
