He suggests staying on the marked trail to protect fragile plants like Bigelow's sedge and boreal bentgrass.

Plants found in this region include: Bigelow's sedge, alpine bilberry, mountain sandwort, crowberry, mountain cranberry, Labrador tea,Trillium undulatum.

The main vegetation is the scrubby cottongrass (Eriophorum vaginatum), stiff sedge (Carex bigelowii) and shrubs such as Betula nana, Empetrum nigrum, Rhododendron subarcticum, and the berry Vaccinium vitis-idaea.